gleaner
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈɡliːnər/
:
recolector
- Every autumn, gleaners visit farms to gather any fruits that remain on the trees.
- fields for gleaners
Examples
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The charity organized a team of gleaners to help collect vegetables that were not picked during the main harvest.
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The name is telling: Jansu omen are held in some contempt by other cloth vendors in the Aba market, who regard them as mere gleaners, scrap collectors.
Academic text (2006) -
Closer to the harvest in the background, the gleaners here remain part of the agricultural community from which Millet divorced them in the Salon painting, and the vertical format omits the foreman on the right who had monitored their distance from the collective.
Academic text (2003) -
After the harvest, a group of gleaners collected the leftover crops from the field.
Synonyms
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1.4
A person who chooses or gathers items, often fruit
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3.2
A person who collects wild plants and berries for a living
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Etymology
Gleaner comes from the old verb glean, which means 'to gather', especially the grain left in a field after the harvest. So a gleaner is someone who collects those leftovers from the fields.