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Definitions for: Glean
[v] gather, as of as crops
Webster (1913) Definition: Glean, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleaned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gleaning.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr.
LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh?u to clean, purify, or
AS. gelm, gilm, a hand?ul.]
1. To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or
fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or
grapes left after the gathering.
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main
harvest reaps. --Shak.
2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
obtain.
Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
--Locke.
Glean, v. i.
1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field
after the reapers. --Ruth ii. 3.
2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on,
and gather up the whole estate. --Pope.
Glean, n.
A collection made by gleaning.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
--Dryden.
Glean, n.
Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland.
Synonyms: harvest, reap
See Also: collect, cut, garner, gather, pull together
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