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gleaning n. 拾落穗,落穗,拾遺 拾落穗,落穗,拾遺 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]
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] 68 Moby Thesaurus words for " gleaning": 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, winningsGLEANING. The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew, as may, have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered. 2. There is a custom in England, it is said, by which the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another' s land after harvest without being guilty of a trespass. 3 Bl. Com. 212 . But it has been decided that the community are not entitled to claim this privilege as a right. 1 Hen. Bl. 51. In the United States, it is believed, no such right exists. This right seems to have existed in some parts of France. Merl. Rep. mot Glanage. As to whether gleaning would or would not amount to larceny, vide Woodf. Landl. & Ten. 242; 2 Russ. on Cr. 99. The Jewish law may be found in the 19th chapter of Leviticus, verses 9 and 10. See Ruth, ii. 2, 3; Isaiah, xvii. 6.
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