glean

glean meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam

Examples of glean in a sentence

• And Ruth the Moabiteſſe ſaide vnto Naomi, Let me now goe to the field, and gleane eares of corne after him, in whoſe ſight I ſhall finde grace.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 2:2, column 2:
• And thus ſhe vvent compell'd / By ſtrong neceſſity, vvith as ſerene, / And pleas'd a look as patience can put on, / To glean Palæmon's fields.1730, James Thomson, “Autumn. Inscribed to the Right Honourable Arthur Onslow, Esq; Speaker of the House of Commons.”, in The Seasons...
• Some harvest loss was gleaned by animals, although little information is available on the proportion of harvest loss gleaned and no hard data is available on the quantity.1977 September 16, Elmer Boyd Staats, Comptroller General, “Food Loss”, in Food Waste: An Opportunity to Improve Resource Use: Report to...
• By Jay'd! ay, that's another Excellence of the Don's; he does not only glean up all the Bad VVords of other Authors, but makes nevv Bad VVords of his ovvn.1729 (date written), Sciblerus Secundus [pseudonym; Henry Fielding], The Author’s Farce; and The Pleasures of the Town. […], London: […] J....

All 20 example sentences with glean

Synonyms of glean

• lease
• extract
• learn
• wring
• clean
• cleaning

All synonyms of glean

Forms of glean

Past tense of glean: gleaned

Origin of glean

The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenen (“to gather (heads of grain left by reapers), glean; to gather (things) together, collect”), from Old French glener, glainer (modern French glaner (“to gather, glean”)), from Late Latin glen(n)are, the present active infinitive of glen(n)ō (“to make a collection”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *glanos (“clean; clear”, adjective), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰleh₁- (“to glow, shine; to be glowing or shining”). The noun is derived from Late Middle English glene (“collection of heads of grain gathered by gleaning; head of grain”), from Old French glene, glane (“act of gleaning; legal right to glean”) (modern French glane (“act of gleaning”)), from glener, glainer (verb): see above. Cognate with Medieval Latin glana, glena (“bundle of ears of grain”).

Possibly a variant of clean (“(UK, dialectal; noun) the afterbirth of a cow or sheep; (verb) of a cow or sheep: to bring forth the afterbirth”), possibly from clean (“to remove dirt from an object or place”), referring to an animal’s uterus being cleaned out by the delivery of the afterbirth.

Words formed from glean

• gleanable
• gleaned
• gleaner
• gleaning
• ungleaned

Words that rhyme with glean

• dean
• queen
• clean
• green
• screen
• keene
• bean
• scene
• mean
• machine
• magazine
• keen

Questions about glean

What does glean mean?

Glean means to collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.

What is glean in Tamil?

Glean in Tamil is கொஞ்சம் கொஞ்சமாகப் பொறுக்கி எடு, சிதறிக் கிடப்பதைச் சேகரி, சிந்தினவற்றைச் சேகரி. See Glean meaning in Tamil.

How do you use glean in a sentence?

And Ruth the Moabiteſſe ſaide vnto Naomi, Let me now goe to the field, and gleane eares of corne after him, in whoſe ſight I ſhall finde grace.

What part of speech is glean?

Glean can be a verb or a noun.

How do you pronounce glean?

Glean is pronounced /ɡliːn/ (UK).

What is the past tense of glean?

The past tense of glean is gleaned.