to glean
3
6.8
- verb
- /ɡliːn/
:
espigar
- The fields yielded richly, and they were cut and gleaned with diligence and devotion.
- glean fallen fruit
- gleaning the field
Examples
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You will glean the stubble of the fields by night.
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When we had gleaned the field, the cucumbers had to be hauled to the buying station in Willmar, forty miles away.
Fiction book (1990) -
Or let them glean straw in the fields for themselves.
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It's time to glean the chaff from the grain.
Blog text (12) -
So Ruth gleans and she gleans in the field of a kinsman named Boaz.
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Jada moved down the long row, bending over the tender vines, gleaning the ripened pods.
Fiction book (1993) -
Students and soldiers were ordered out for the harvest, straggling behind peasants who tirelessly filled sacks; at any time, scavengers could always glean a few potatoes from a field.
Fiction book (1992) -
After the harvest, many farmers allow their neighbors to glean leftover crops from their fields.
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During the fall, volunteers glean fruits and vegetables from local farms to help feed the hungry.
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Every year, the community organizes a day where we all glean the fields for any crops that were missed during the main harvest.
Phrasal Verbs
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5.2
To find small pieces of information from different places and put them together
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Glean comes from an old farming idea meaning 'to gather' leftover grain after the main harvest, like picking up stray stalks in a field. So glean still means to collect crops or things left behind.