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Definition of 'glean'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , from (etyl).
Verb
( en-verb)
To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering.
* , Ruth 2:2,
- Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
* Shakespeare
- To glean the broken ears after the man / That the main harvest reaps.
To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard).
- to glean a field
To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.
* John Locke
- content to glean what we can from experiments
* 8 December 2011 , BBC News, Iran shows film of captured US drone , available in http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098562 :
- He said Iran was "well aware of what priceless technological information" could be gleaned from the aircraft.
To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts.
- He gleaned a living from newspaper work for a few months, but in the summer went to a fishing village […] where […] he wrote his great historical drama, "Master Olof." (Translators Edith and Warner Oland on author .)
Synonyms
* (gather information) learn
Noun
( en-noun)
A collection made by gleaning.
* Dryden
- The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
Etymology 2
Noun
(obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth
- (Holland)
( Webster 1913)
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