'Gleaning' definitions:
Definition of 'Gleaning'
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]
Definition of 'Gleaning'
From: GCIDE
- Gleaning \Glean"ing\, n. The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. [1913 Webster]
- Glenings of natural knowledge. --Cook. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gleaning'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accumulation,
- amassment,
- ana,
- analects,
- anthology,
- assembling,
- bringing together,
- capital gains,
- cleanup,
- clear profit,
- clippings,
- collectanea,
- collection,
- crop,
- cumulation,
- cutting,
- cuttings,
- dividends,
- earnings,
- excerpta,
- excerpts,
- extracts,
- filthy lucre,
- florilegium,
- flowers,
- fragments,
- gain,
- gains,
- gathering,
- get,
- gettings,
- gleanings,
- gross,
- gross profit,
- harvest,
- harvesting,
- hoard,
- income,
- interest,
- killing,
- lucre,
- makings,
- miscellanea,
- miscellany,
- neat profit,
- net,
- net profit,
- nutting,
- paper profits,
- pelf,
- percentage,
- perk,
- perks,
- perquisite,
- pickings,
- proceeds,
- profit,
- profits,
- rake-off,
- reaping,
- receipts,
- return,
- returns,
- store,
- take,
- take-in,
- wealth,
- winnings