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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.
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