glean
/ɡliːn
/verb [with object]
1Obtain (information) from various sources, often with difficulty: the information is gleaned from press cuttings...
- Much information is gleaned from secondary sources or has been covered in more detail elsewhere by previous authors.
- Most of her war information is gleaned from her twice-weekly phone chats with her husband.
- Information was gleaned from operating reports dictated for the surgical procedures and available for review.
Synonyms
obtain, get, take, draw, derive, extract, cull, garner, gather, reap;
select, choose, pick;
learn, find out
1.1Collect gradually: objects gleaned from local markets
2 historical Gather (leftover grain) after a harvest: (as noun gleaning) the conditions of farm workers in the 1890s made gleaning essential...
- Third, commoning is a collective endeavor as depicted, for example, in the many paintings of gleaning the harvest.
- In the open-field areas of northern France they could glean after harvest and their cattle could graze on the stubble.
- They were not to glean their fields for stray grain, nor harvest the corners.
Derivatives
gleaner
/ noun ...- Like the planter's grain or publisher's newspaper clippings, the overabundance of our media archives can now be clipped and gathered by a new generation of gleaners.
- Only by listening to the gleaners, those picking at the forgotten edges of the field, will we understand the real beauty of the landscape we are creating.
- What kinds of virtues are required to succeed as gleaner?
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French glener, from late Latin glennare, probably of Celtic origin.