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1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 90 The plague..which gleaned away many thousand people.

1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 105 His stay in England was..spent in gleaning out what possible this kingdome could yeeld.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 501 By which means you have been enabled..to glean up your præinformations how the sands have lain.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 104 They Glean up Custom from their Neighbours; and so what one gets, the other loses.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 375 The several little Springs and Rills, that break out of the Sides of the Mountain, are glean'd up, and conveyed..into the main Hollow of the Aqueduct.

1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. vii, in Author's Farce 40 He does not only glean up all the Bad Words of his own..Nay, i gad, I have made New Words and spoil'd Old ones too.

1844 J. R. Lowell Pres. Crisis in Poet. Wks. (1890) I. 183 While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

1611 Bible (King James) Judges xx. 45 And they gleaned of them in the high wayes fiue thousand men. View more context for this quotation

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 121 Those horse that were in the Garrison following their reare glean'd up two Lieftenants and two or three other Officers.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. xi. 306 Bowmen..on the Danish camp discharge a Show'r To glean the Danes the Wolves should not devour.

1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 77 When we perceived the general rout, we..pursu'd them as Hounds do Stags, gleaning now and then some of them.