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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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