Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of gathering after reapers.
  • noun That which is collected by gleaning.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something learned by gleaning.
  • noun The act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
  • noun ornithology The catching of insects and other invertebrates by plucking them from within foliage, or sometimes from the ground. It may also be applied to where prey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-made surfaces such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses.
  • verb Present participle of glean.

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Examples

  • Yes | No | Report from rabbitpolice88 wrote 26 weeks 6 days ago ken. mcloud you voted for obama, because if you hate bush then you hate macCane and palan and all the liberal agenda stuff you have been gleaning from the liberal media in this country goes to show you are a liberal and I would wager you voted for obama, or did you vote at all?

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from rabbitpolice88 wrote 26 weeks 3 days ago ken. mcloud you voted for obama, because if you hate bush then you hate macCane and palan and all the liberal agenda stuff you have been gleaning from the liberal media in this country goes to show you are a liberal and I would wager you voted for obama, or did you vote at all?

    On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies 2009

  • The U.S. appears limited in the amount of further insight it is gleaning from the Chinese.

    Korea Rift Widens as North Cuts Ties 2010

  • Until then we must be content with gleaning from the fragments of his works-his poems, lectures, speeches, essays, histories -- whatever idea of a truly great man can be derived from books and the products of a fertile and well-balanced brain.

    Thomas D'Arcy McGee as an Empire Builder 1906

  • Probably there are several reasons why gleaning is not practiced here.

    Rural Hours 1887

  • The contrast between Edom where no gleanings shall be left, and Israel where at the worst a gleaning is left (Isa 17: 6; 24: 13), is striking.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The total of her gleaning was a box of forgotten chocolate bon-bons and a box of half-length tallow candles.

    No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902

  • The tradition known as gleaning has gone on for centuries, but pickers and organizers say the stakes are higher these days as families struggle against the recession and try to maintain healthy diets amid a national epidemic of obesity.

    MyDesert.com - Cathedral City 2009

  • The tradition known as gleaning has gone on for centuries, but pickers and organizers say the stakes are higher these days as families struggle against the recession and try to maintain healthy diets amid a national epidemic of obesity.

    MyDesert.com - Cathedral City 2009

  • The tradition known as gleaning has gone on for centuries, but pickers and organizers say the stakes are higher these days as families struggle against the recession and try to maintain healthy diets amid a national epidemic of obesity.

    MyDesert.com - Cathedral City 2009

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