glean
Speech parts
1. glean - Noun
2. glean - Verb
Meaning
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 gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
A collection made by gleaning.
Cleaning; afterbirth.
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harvest the grapes
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