gleanern.
/ˈɡliːnə/, U.S. /ˈɡlinər/ One that gleans.
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c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/1 Glenar of corne, spicator.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 225/2 Glenar of corne, glanevr.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gleamer of corne, spicilegus.
1582 T. Bentley et al. Monument of Matrones Pref. B iij I have laboured as you see (good reder) like a poore gleaner or grape gatherer.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xix. 121 It is difficult for gleaners, without stealing whole sheaves, to fill a barn.
1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking II. xlvi. 38 O wretched Gleaner of Weeds! Has he read that noble work, The Intellectual System, to no better purpose?
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 134 The gleaners spread around, and here and there, Spike after spike, their sparing harvest pick.
1878 E. Jenkins Haverholme 39 Such figures..may be picked out day by day by the careful gleaner in the throng.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > gleaning > gleaner
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Grappeuse, a grape-gleaneresse.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A gleaneresse of grapes.
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