Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who gathers after reapers.
- n. One who gathers slowly and assiduously.
- n. A short-handled oyster-rake used by men wading in the water to gather oysters from the beds.
Wiktionary
- n. One who gleans.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who gathers after reapers.
- n. One who gathers slowly with labor.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
- n. someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
Examples
“One gleaner from Aix-en-Provence explains that he lives on 90 euros a month: Istarted looking through bins because I was hard-up.”
“The wind is a lover, gently caressing, and a gleaner—sweeping clean the debris and breaking those who will not bend.”
“They include the Alagoas foliage-gleaner (Philydor noveasi, CR) and the Alagoas antwren (Myrmotherula snowi, CR).”
“There was nothing random, from the point of view of God's purposes, in the time of Naomi and Ruth's arrival in Bethlehem, for through following the harvesters as a gleaner, humbly gathering what was left behind; Ruth would find the kind man who would take her under his protection; a kinsman.”
“Mr. Fischer depicts Champlain as a wise gleaner of facts who listened to Basque whalers, Breton fishermen, African slaves -- anyone who could impart information.”
“They are not the same for the gleaner in the field, for the girl who sews at fifteen sous a day, for the daughter of a petty shopkeeper, for the young bourgoise, for the child of a rich merchant, for the heiress of a noble family, for a daughter of the house of Este.”
“Oddly enough it was Mr Ryan's rant on the editorial page complaining about how the media..the gleaner in particular was ignoring his organization while promoting Pro Choice that caused me to point out just how well his group plays the media game.”
“Greek, meaning “foreigner”, and Theresa, meaning “harvester” or “gleaner” were the origin of the “International Harvester” product name.”
“Mark Dawes, Staff Reporter www.jamaica-gleaner.com”
“Harvard College, where, however, he had gained renown rather as a gymnast and an oarsman than as a gleaner of more dispersed knowledge.”
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John Keats
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Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
- John Keats, 'Ode To Autumn'. Aug 8, 2009