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[ glee-ning ] / ˈgli nɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR gleaning ON THESAURUS.COM
nounthe act of a person who gleans. gleanings, things found or acquired by gleaning. Origin of gleaningFirst recorded in 1400–50, gleaning is from the late Middle English word glenynge.See glean, -ing1 Words nearby gleaningGLC, Gld., gleam, gleamy, glean, gleaning, gleanings, Gleason, gleba, glebe, glede Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for gleaningAnd after gleaning the data from those races, they “plan to scale up and go big in 2016,” says McKinnon. The New War on Big Money in Politics|Eleanor Clift|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST This year they will also make an effort to involve people in the gleaning. Waste Not, Want Not|Katie Maloney|March 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST In the battle against food waste and hunger, the ancient tradition of gleaning is gaining new admirers around America. Waste Not, Want Not|Katie Maloney|March 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST With the joy and honest pride of a discoverer, I present the results of a summer's gleaning. The Wit of Women|Kate Sanborn
He allowed Ruth to glean; but he took care to make her gleaning profitable. Notes on the Book of Leviticus|C. H. Mackintosh His biographers are continually reduced to gleaning stray hints, here and there, concerning his private life. Henry Fielding: A Memoir|G. M. Godden There'll be no harvest for you; the Shopman has given orders to stop the gleaning. Sons of the Soil|Honore de Balzac But this knowledge was not the result of a moments or an hours gleaning, but nearly half a centurys existence in the seraph life. Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887|Various
Words related to gleaningcull, extract, gather, sift, garner, deduce, learn, reap, amass, conclude, pick, winnow, ascertain, accumulate, harvest, select |