Glean

What do we mean by glean?

To gather grain left behind by reapers. intransitive verb

To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. intransitive verb

To collect bit by bit: synonym: reap. intransitive verb

To gather after a reaper, or on a reaped field; bring together from a scattered condition, as grain left after the removal of the main crop.

Hence To collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels or portions; pick up here and there; gather slowly and assiduously.

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers; also, to collect or gather anything in a similar way.

A handful of corntied together by a gleaner. noun

Anything gathered or gleaned. noun

A somewhat indefinite unit; a bunch: as, a glean of teazels. Essex and Gloucestershire, Eng. A glean of herrings, by a statute of Edward I., is 25. noun

The afterbirth, as of a cow or other domestic animal; the cleaning. noun

A collection made by gleaning. noun

To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers. intransitive verb

To pick up or gather anything by degrees. intransitive verb

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. transitive verb

To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left. transitive verb

To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. transitive verb

Cleaning; afterbirth. noun

Cleaning; afterbirth noun

To harvest grain left behind after the crop has been reaped. verb

To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit. verb

A collection made by gleaning.

Words that are spelled similarly to glean:
glean, lean, clean, gleam, glen, glenn, gleen, gean, glead, olean, glan, grean, elean, slean, glea, alean.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word glean:
foliage, foraging, insects, insights, insect, bark, prey, harvest, information, vegetation, seeds, relevant, branches, useful, understanding, birds, flowers, leaves, methods, sources, fields, knowledge, food, might, sometimes, ground.

Words that rhyme with glean:
mean, green, bean, machine, lean, keen, screen, clean, lien, between, scene, queen, mien, gene, marine, serene, routine, intervene, convene, obscene, protein, cuisine, internecine, dean, magazine, hygiene, spleen, halloween, philistine, careen, byzantine, preen, evergreen, ravine, wean, leen, demean, quarantine, libertine, vaccine, canteen, sunscreen, sheen, teen, mezzanine, contravene, irene, unforeseen, mein, jean, submarine, argentine, seen, caffeine, saline, tangerine, nene, guillotine, aniline, treen, tourmaline, sardine, vien, casein, latrine, aquamarine, opaline, wolverine, reconvene, geraldine, augustine, agin, umpteen, baleen, limousine, bromine, peregrine, clementine, gasoline, labyrinthine, selene, eugene, murine, undine, trampoline, figurine, fifteen, aberdeen, amin, sabine, thirteen, foreseen, sistine, feine, florentine, amphetamine, gelatine, holstein, adenine, kerosene.

Adjectives that are often used to describe glean:
plenteous, long, poor.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective glean:
bodhar, science, information, town, ideas, simple.

Consonant match to glean:
glen, glenn, glyn, glynn, glahn.

Words that sound like glean:
glean, gleen, gleam, glen, glenn, glynn, glyn, glan, glane, glin, gleim, glynne, glinn, clean, cleen, clene, glee, gloom, glum, glam, gly, gloam, gleaned, glim, glom, glume, gleaner, glia, gleans, gien, glime, glome, gli, glomb, gley, gouin, gaylene, glio, glaum, gln, clown, clan, clone, klan, klein, eileen, cline, aileen, kline, clon, ilene, oline, clin, aleen, alene, clyne, klin, clune, kleine, olean, allein, klon, alleen, eilene, ileen, klann, olene, aliene, klun, alleine, clin-, cloyne, gain, gallon, gan, gane, agleam, galen, gallen, galon, gawn, gann, galan, galloon, gahn, gaan, gaian, gaon, gaun, -gen, gagn, gaughan, eglin, gaulin, galin, gallin, eglon, -gon, eaglin, a gleam.