'Glean' definitions:

Definition of 'glean'

verb

Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes" [syn: reap, harvest, glean]

From: GCIDE

Glean \Glean\, v. i.
1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. [1913 Webster]
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers. --Ruth ii. 3. [1913 Webster]
2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees. [1913 Webster]
Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

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.] [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left. [1913 Webster]
3. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. [1913 Webster]
Content to glean what we can from . . . experiments. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

Glean The corners of fields were not to be reaped, and the sheaf accidentally left behind was not to be fetched away, according to the law of Moses (Lev. 19:9; 23:22; Deut. 24:21). They were to be left for the poor to glean. Similar laws were given regarding vineyards and oliveyards. (Comp. Ruth 2:2.)