glean

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  1. intransitive verb To gather grain left behind by reapers.
  2. transitive verb To gather (grain) left behind by reapers.
  3. transitive verb To collect bit by bit: "records from which historians glean their knowledge” (Kemp Malone). See Synonyms at reap.

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  • The Old Quad was dark, except for the glean of lighted windows; the sky had clouded, and a rising wind stirred the boughs of the beech-trees. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • The thing you need to glean, my friends, is that Darker My Love is dynamite. —  RVABlogs
  • And that insight comes not just from the hundreds of panels but also from the people you meet (they are far more diverse than your typical ad conference attendee), the connections you make and the information you glean which is decidedly unavailable at most other industry events. —  Adrants
  • I do not recollect the time when I began to glean--or gather_, as it is locally termed--probably I would, when very young, follow the others to the near farms, and gradually become, as I grew older, a regular gleaner. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
  • She sent him letters in return, telling him all the home news she could glean, and saying that she expected him back before the winter. —  Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
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  1. Middle English glenen, from Old French glener, from Late Latin glennāre, probably of Celtic origin.

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  1. from Middle English glenen, from Old French glener, also glaner, French glaner, dial, gléner = Provencal glenar, grenar, from Late Latin glenare (adjective d. 561), glean. Origin uncertain; the noun, Middle Latin glena, glenna, also gelina, gelima, a handful or bundle (of reaped grain), a sheaf, appears much later, throwing doubt upon the otherwise plausible supposition that Late Latin glenare stands for *gelimare or *gelmare, from the Teutonic noun representing by Anglo-Saxon gelm, gilm, a handful or bundle of reaped grain, a sheaf, English dial. yelm. The early modern English gleam or gleme (see gleam) is a variant of glean, perhaps in conformity to yelm, q. v.
  2. from Middle English glen, glene; cf. Old French glene, glenne, glane, Middle Latin glena, glenna, a handful of reaped grain, a bunch: see glean, v.
  3. Perhaps a corruption of clean. Cf. gleam.
 

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