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Meaning of 'glean' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Glean [ n.]
- A collection made by gleaning.
- Cleaning; afterbirth.
2 . Glean [ v. i.]
- To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
- To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
3 . Glean [ v. t.]
- 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 gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
- To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.

Meaning of 'glean' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . glean [ v]
Meaning (1):
- gather, as of natural products
Example in sentence:
  • harvest the grapes

Nearby Words:

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