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 beencommercially harvested or on fields where it is noteconomically profitable to harvest. - noun ornithology The catching of
insects and otherinvertebrates byplucking them from withinfoliage , or sometimes from theground . It may also be applied to whereprey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-madesurfaces such as rock faces and under theeaves ofhouses . - verb Present participle of
glean .
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Examples
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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?
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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?
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The U.S. appears limited in the amount of further insight it is gleaning from the Chinese.
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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.
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Probably there are several reasons why gleaning is not practiced here.
Rural Hours 1887
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This kind of gathering is called gleaning, which is when excess food in public areas gets harvested.
I went gleaning for fruit to try and reduce my carbon footprint. Was it enough? Caitlin Hernández 2024
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