6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glean \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glean \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glean \Glean\, n.
A collection made by gleaning.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glean \Glean\, n.
Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
glean
v : gather, as of as crops [syn: {reap}, {harvest}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Glean
The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf
accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away according
to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were
to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given
regarding vineyards and oliveyards (Comp. Ruth 2:2.)
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