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Definition of Gleaning
1. n. The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
Definition of Gleaning
1. Noun. Something learned by gleaning. ¹
2. Noun. The act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest. ¹
3. Noun. (ornithology) The catching of insects and other invertebrates by plucking them from within foliage, or sometimes from the ground. It may also be applied to where prey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-made surfaces such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses. ¹
4. Verb. (present participle of glean) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gleaning
1. something that is gleaned [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleaning
Literary usage of Gleaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners on the Employment of by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (1843)
"Three or four bushels of corn are by no means an uncommon result of the gleaning.
Five-and-twenty or thirty shillings obtained in this way are an important ..."
2. Farm sermons by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882)
"OUNTRY friends need no explanation of what is meant by gleaning. ... I am afraid
that many who see gleaning every year in the fields of their own parish are ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Let us go back through the columns of the newspaper press for the last two
centuries or so, gleaning those curious and eccentric advertisements which ..."
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