gleaning
n . 拾落穗,落穗,拾遗
拾落穗,落穗,拾遗
Glean \
Glean \,
v .
t . [
imp . &
p .
p . {
Gleaned };
p .
pr . &
vb .
n .
{
Gleaning }.] [
OE .
glenen ,
OF .
glener ,
glaner ,
F .
glaner ,
fr .
LL .
glenare ;
cf .
W .
glan clean ,
glanh ?
u to clean ,
purify ,
or AS .
gelm ,
gilm ,
a hand ?
ul .]
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1 .
To gather after a reaper ;
to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels ,
as the grain left by a reaper ,
or grapes left after the gathering .
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To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps . --
Shak .
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2 .
To gather from (
a field or vineyard )
what is left .
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3 .
To collect with patient and minute labor ;
to pick out ;
to obtain .
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Content to glean what we can from . . .
experiments .
--
Locke .
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Gleaning \
Glean "
ing \,
n .
The act of gathering after reapers ;
that which is collected by gleaning .
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Glenings of natural knowledge . --
Cook .
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68 Moby Thesaurus words for "
gleaning ":
accumulation ,
amassment ,
ana ,
analects ,
anthology ,
assembling ,
bringing together ,
capital gains ,
cleanup ,
clear profit ,
clippings ,
collectanea ,
collection ,
crop ,
cumulation ,
cutting ,
cuttings ,
dividends ,
earnings ,
excerpta ,
excerpts ,
extracts ,
filthy lucre ,
florilegium ,
flowers ,
fragments ,
gain ,
gains ,
gathering ,
get ,
gettings ,
gleanings ,
gross ,
gross profit ,
harvest ,
harvesting ,
hoard ,
income ,
interest ,
killing ,
lucre ,
makings ,
miscellanea ,
miscellany ,
neat profit ,
net ,
net profit ,
nutting ,
paper profits ,
pelf ,
percentage ,
perk ,
perks ,
perquisite ,
pickings ,
proceeds ,
profit ,
profits ,
rake -
off ,
reaping ,
receipts ,
return ,
returns ,
store ,
take ,
take -
in ,
wealth ,
winnings GLEANING .
The act of gathering such grain in a field where it grew ,
as may ,
have been left by the reapers after the sheaves were gathered .
2 .
There is a custom in England ,
it is said ,
by which the poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another '
s land after harvest without being guilty of a trespass .
3 Bl .
Com .
212 .
But it has been decided that the community are not entitled to claim this privilege as a right .
1 Hen .
Bl .
51 .
In the United States ,
it is believed ,
no such right exists .
This right seems to have existed in some parts of France .
Merl .
Rep .
mot Glanage .
As to whether gleaning would or would not amount to larceny ,
vide Woodf .
Landl . &
Ten .
242 ;
2 Russ .
on Cr .
99 .
The Jewish law may be found in the 19th chapter of Leviticus ,
verses 9 and 10 .
See Ruth ,
ii .
2 ,
3 ;
Isaiah ,
xvii .
6 .
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