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. "To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps."
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"Glean" Quotes from Famous Books — Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly - A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. • David Bryant Fulton — Cabin Fever • B. M. Bower — Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson — Australia Twice Traversed, The Romance of Exploration • Ernest Giles — Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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