gleaneth

Verb

glean (third-person singular simple present gleans, present participle gleaning, simple past and past participle gleaned)

1. (transitive) To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.
   • So holy, and ſo perfect is my loue, / And I in ſuch a pouerty of grace, / That I ſhall thinke it a moſt plenteous crop / To gleane the broken eares after the man / That the maine harueſt reapes: […]c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   lease

2. (figuratively, transitive) To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
   • [Ferdinand] Magellan ſoone after ſailes yet more South, and paſſes that Fretum or ſtrait, vvith more reaſon called Magellan, a hundred others haue ſince that gleaned ſeueral additions of Titles and nevv names their diſtributed.1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “A Discourse and Proofe that Madoc ap Owen Gwynedd First Found Out that Continent Now Call’d America”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique...

   Synonyms:

   extract, learn, wring

3. (figuratively, transitive) To take away (someone's) possessions; to strip (someone) bare.
4. (figuratively, transitive) Of an animal, especially a bat or a bird: to feed by picking up or plucking (prey, mainly arthropods such as insects) from various places.
   • Frigate birds glean a portion of their livelihood from the host of creatures which live at the surface of the ocean: flying-fishes, ctenophores, jelly-fishes, velela, janthina, and in fact anything that may attract their fancy. I even observed one bird aimlessly carrying a splinter of wood...1904 May–June, Walter K[enrick] Fisher, “The Home Life of a Buccaneer”, in Walter K. Fisher, editor, The Condor: A Magazine of Western Ornithology, volume VI, number 3, Palo Alto, Calif.: Cooper...
5. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To collect or gather (things) into one mass.
   • Such ſlender arguments be gleaneth together agaynſt vs, ſeeking bye matters. But what ſhould he do? elſe ſhould he haue nought to furniſhe his counterblaſt withall.1573, Iohn [i.e., John] Bridges, “The Fourth Diuision”, in The Supremacie of Christian Princes, ouer All Persons throughout Their Dominions, […], London: […] Henrie Bynneman, for Humfrey Toye, →OCLC...
6. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To cut off (straggling soldiers separated from their units) during a conflict; to isolate.
   • And they turned and fled toward the wilderneſſe vnto the rocke of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the high wayes fiue thouſand men: and purſued hard after them vnto Gidom, and ſlew two thouſand men of them.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 20:45, column 1

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