gleaning

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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
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
Present participle of glean
Something learned by gleaning
{n} the act of gleaning, a thing gleaned
The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning
To gather bit by bit
Collecting unharvested crops from fields or obtaining unused agricultural products from farmers, processors, or retailers, usually for distribution to food banks and charitable feeding organizations
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To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit
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To harvest grain left behind after the crop has been reaped

Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.

glean
{v} to gather the remains, pick up, select
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{f} gather or collect crops that harvesters have left behind; gather, compile; discover or learn bit by bit
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To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain
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To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers
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To pick up or gather anything by degrees
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A collection made by gleaning
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Cleaning; afterbirth
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To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left
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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
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If you glean something such as information or knowledge, you learn or collect it slowly and patiently, and perhaps indirectly. At present we're gleaning information from all sources 10,000 pages of evidence were gleaned from hundreds and hundreds of interviews. = gather
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gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
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{i} things acquired by gleaning; collection of facts or information
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small pieces of information that you have found out with difficulty
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plural of gleaning
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