GLEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glean mean? 

• GLEAN (verb)
  The verb GLEAN has 1 sense:

1. gather, as of natural products

  Familiarity information: GLEAN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEAN (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they glean    ... he / she / it gleans   
Past simple: gleaned   
Past participle: gleaned   
-ing form: gleaning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Gather, as of natural products

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

glean; harvest; reap

Context example:

harvest the grapes

Hypernyms (to "glean" is one way to...):

collect; garner; gather; pull together (assemble or get together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "glean"):

cut (reap or harvest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They glean rye in the field

Derivation:

gleaner (someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters)

 Context examples 

If you do, you may be able to glean a clue.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The observations might be able to glean information only from a planet's upper atmosphere.

(Sunsets on Titan reveal the complexity of hazy exoplanets, NASA)

Mr. Higginbotham liked the word, which was a new one in his vocabulary, recently gleaned from a newspaper column.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We all looked at each other, trying to glean something each from the other. We were afraid to think.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I suppose he had considered that these were all the governess would require for her private perusal; and, indeed, they contented me amply for the present; compared with the scanty pickings I had now and then been able to glean at Lowood, they seemed to offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The brow of the hill, where they remained, was a cheerful spot: Louisa returned; and Mary, finding a comfortable seat for herself on the step of a stile, was very well satisfied so long as the others all stood about her; but when Louisa drew Captain Wentworth away, to try for a gleaning of nuts in an adjoining hedge-row, and they were gone by degrees quite out of sight and sound, Mary was happy no longer; she quarrelled with her own seat, was sure Louisa had got a much better somewhere, and nothing could prevent her from going to look for a better also.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I mention 1996 to see if you can glean a clue of what might come up now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)