Found 3 items, similar to Glean.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: glean
memungut
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: glean
glean
v : gather, as of natural products;
“harvest the grapes” [syn:
reap,
harvest]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Glean
Glean
\Glean\, v. i.
1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
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And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field
after the reapers. --Ruth ii. 3.
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2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
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Piecemeal they this acre first, then that;
Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. --Pope.
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Glean
\Glean\, n.
A collection made by gleaning.
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The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
--Dryden.
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Glean
\Glean\, n.
Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Glean
\Glean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Gleaned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Gleaning.] [OE. glenen, OF. glener, glaner, F. glaner, fr.
LL. glenare; cf. W. glan clean, glanh?u to clean, purify, or
AS. gelm, gilm, a hand?ul.]
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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.
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To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. --Shak.
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2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
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3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
obtain.
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Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments.
--Locke.
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