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Gleaner

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glean  (gln)
v. gleaned, glean·ing, gleans
v.intr.
To gather grain left behind by reapers.
v.tr.
1. To gather (grain) left behind by reapers.
2. To collect bit by bit: "records from which historians glean their knowledge" Kemp Malone. See Synonyms at reap.
[Middle English glenen, from Old French glener, from Late Latin glennre, probably of Celtic origin.]
gleaner n.
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Noun1.Gleanergleaner - someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand - a hired hand on a farm
2.gleaner - someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
accumulator, collector, gatherer - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
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Spread out before her was a treasure, a million wrung from her fortune as a gleaner plucks the blue corn-flower from her crown of flowers.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Nevertheless, feeling that such men were dependent on him, this gleaner of ideas exacted certain dues.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
ah, how sadly fair, with its golden glow and the dying grandeur of its tinted woods--its blood-red sunsets and its ghostly evening mists, with its busy murmur of reapers, and its laden orchards, and the calling of the gleaners, and the festivals of praise!
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
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