Noun
gleanings
plural of gleaning (“act of harvesting leftover crops”)
gleanings pl (plural only)
the crops leftover from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest
In his memoirs, Gleanings, Gladstone lamented the Prime Ministry's unseemly status in the government hierarchy: "Nowhere in the wide world," he said, "does so great a substance cast so small a shadow. Source: Internet