glean

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.

   “So holy, and ſo perfect is my loue, / And I in ſuch a pouerty of grace, / That I ſhall thinke it a moſt plenteous crop / To gleane the broken eares after the man / That the maine harueſt reapes: […]”

2. fiil To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.

   “[Ferdinand] Magellan ſoone after ſailes yet more South, and paſſes that Fretum or ſtrait, vvith more reaſon called Magellan, a hundred others haue ſince that gleaned ſeueral additions of Titles and nevv names their diſtributed.”

3. fiil To take away (someone's) possessions; to strip (someone) bare.
4. fiil Of an animal, especially a bat or a bird: to feed by picking up or plucking (prey, mainly arthropods such as insects) from various places.

   “Seen traveling and foraging in noisy flocks of 5 to 30 or more birds, gleaning insects, eggs, and larvae from shrubs and trees.”

5. fiil To collect or gather (things) into one mass.

   “Such ſlender arguments be gleaneth together agaynſt vs, ſeeking bye matters. But what ſhould he do? elſe ſhould he haue nought to furniſhe his counterblaſt withall.”

6. fiil To cut off (straggling soldiers separated from their units) during a conflict; to isolate.

   “And they turned and fled toward the wilderneſſe vnto the rocke of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the high wayes fiue thouſand men: and purſued hard after them vnto Gidom, and ſlew two thouſand men of them.”

7. fiil To collect fruit, grain, or other produce after the main gathering or harvest.

   “Put nat your horſes in to the corne felde yet for my folkes haue nat gleaned there yet: […]”

8. fiil Of an animal, especially a bat or a bird: to feed by picking up or plucking prey, mainly arthropods such as insects, from various places.

   “On migration, it [the Wilson's warbler (Cardellina pusilla)] appears as a sunny flash of gold in roadside shrubs or swamp thickets, refueling on insects gleaned from leaves or caught in midair forays.”

9. isim A collection of something made by gleaning.

   “Even the greateſt, in reſpect of God, is but a gleaner. God, he is the Maſter of the Harveſt; all Gifts and Graces they are his, in an infinite meaſure; and every godly man, more or leſſe, gleanes from him. Abraham gleaned a great gleane of Faith; Moſes, of Meekneſſe; […]”

10. isim The afterbirth or placenta of an animal, especially a cow or sheep.

    “The gleane of a covv hauing nevvly calved, taken vvhiles it is moiſt and ſo applied, is good for any ulcers of the viſage.”

11. fiil Of an animal, especially a cow or sheep: to deliver its afterbirth or placenta.