Glean

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Gleaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gleaning.]
	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.
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.
n.	1.	A collection made by gleaning. The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs. - Dryden.
	1.	Cleaning; afterbirth.

Verb

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glean - gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" Synonyms: harvest, reap

accumulate, amass, ascertain, assemble, bring in, bring together, choose out, collect, conclude, crop, crop herbs, cull, cut, decide between, deduce, derive, dig, dig up, draw a conclusion, draw an inference, excerpt, extract, fetch, find, garner, gather in, get in, get together, grabble, grub, grub up, handpick, hay, induce, infer, learn, make a selection, mow, nut, pick out, pick up, pluck, rake up, reap and carry, reason, reason that, round up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, sift, single out, take as proved, take up, winnow