Gleaning
['glinɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glean
(n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see gleaners at work at harvest time, denotes prosperous business, and, to the farmer, a bountiful yield of crops. If you are working with the gleaners, you will come into an estate, after some trouble in establishing rights. For a woman, this dream foretells marriage with a stranger.
Typist: Montague
Examples
- A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- That which was wild had become domesticated; regular crops took the place of haphazard gleanings from brake or prairie; the possibility of electrical starvation was forever left behind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Checker: Victoria