Glean (Verb)
Meaning
Gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes".
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- She carefully gleaned the berries from the bushes in the forest, making sure not to miss a single one.
- Farmers were able to glean a decent crop of wheat from the field despite the unpredictable weather.
- The crew was tasked with gleaning as many oysters as possible from the bay in the early morning hours.
- To make the jam, she began to glean ripe strawberries from her garden patch.
- People from the village had gathered to glean the fields for any leftover grains after the harvest season.