Definition of Gleans

1. Verb. (third-person singular of glean) ¹

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Definition of Gleans

1. glean [v] - See also: glean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleans

gleamers
gleamier
gleamiest
gleaming
gleamingly
gleamings
gleams
gleamy
glean
gleanable
gleaned
gleaner
gleaners
gleaning
gleanings
gleans (current term)
gleave
gleaves
gleba
glebae
glebal
glebe
glebe-house
glebe-land
glebe house
glebeless
glebes
glebous
gleby
gled

Literary usage of Gleans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa: From Eighteen by David Livingstone (1875)
"Geography of the Arabs.—Ivory Traders and Slave-dealers. —Appeal to the Koran.—gleans Intelligence of the ..."

2. The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa, from 1865 to His by David Livingstone (1874)
"Geography of the Arabs. Ivory traders and slave-dealers. Appeal to the Koran. gleans intelligence of the ..."

3. Three hundred Bible stories (1874)
"... with her; and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley-harvest.'—RUTH i. Ruth gleans in the Fields of Boaz. RUTH gleans IN THE FIELDS OF BOAZ. ..."

4. Joshua, Judges, Ruth, tr. by J. Martin by Carl Friedrich Keil (1865)
"... as being the more common gender. The harvest, as a whole, commenced with the barley harvest (see at Lev. xxiii. 10, 11). RUTH gleans IN THE FIELD OF ..."

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