Look up: glean

1. glean
   gather facts in small quantities 
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2. Glean
   Glean transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Gleaned ; present participle & verbal noun Gleaning .] [ Middle English glenen , Old French glener , glaner , Fren...
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3. Glean
   Glean intransitive verb 1. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. « And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers.» Ruth ii. 3. 2. To pick up or gather anything by degrees. &#...
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4. Glean
   Glean noun A collection made by gleaning. « The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.» Dryden.
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5. Glean
   Glean noun Cleaning; afterbirth. [ Obsolete] Holland.
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6. Glean
   • (v. i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. • (n.) Cleaning; afterbirth. • (v. i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees. • (v. t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left. • (n.) A collection made by gleaning. • (v. t.) To gather after a r...
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7. glean
   glean, gleans, gleaning 1. To gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit: 'Etymologists glean their knowledge from many classical sources.' 2. To learn, discover, or to find out; usually little by little or slowly. 3. To gather (grain or similar plant products) after the reapers or regular gatherer...
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8. glean
   an old English unit of quantity for herrings, equal to 25 fish.
   Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictG.