GLEANING
Noun
gleaning (plural gleanings)
Something learned by gleaning.
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.
(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
gleaning
present participle of glean
Anagrams
• Leingang, angeling, gangline
Source: Wiktionary
Glean"ing, n.
Definition: The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by
gleaning.
Glenings of natural knowledge. Cook.
GLEAN
Glean, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gleaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaning.] Etym:
[OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr. LL. glenare; cf. W.
glan clean, glanh to clean, purify, or AS. gelm, gilm, a hand
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.
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.
Glean, n.
Definition: A collection made by gleaning.
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. Dryden.
Glean, n.
Definition: Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition