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UK
/ɡlˈiːnɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
- someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
How To Use gleaner In A Sentence
- Mr. Fischer depicts Champlain as a wise gleaner of facts who listened to Basque whalers, Breton fishermen, African slaves -- anyone who could impart information. A Forgotten Explorateur
- One gleaner from Aix-en-Provence explains that he lives on 90 euros a month: Istarted looking through bins because I was hard-up. 2009 February 11 « Scavenging
- There was nothing random, from the point of view of God's purposes, in the time of Naomi and Ruth's arrival in Bethlehem, for through following the harvesters as a gleaner, humbly gathering what was left behind; Ruth would find the kind man who would take her under his protection; a kinsman. God Made Me Contemplative
- A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers.
- The article was written by Chester Francis-Jackson, a writer for the Jamaica Gleaner who covers all events such as these, or events put on by the very rich, most well known socialites in Jamaican society.
- Like the planter's grain or publisher's newspaper clippings, the overabundance of our media archives can now be clipped and gathered by a new generation of gleaners.
- The wind is a lover, gently caressing, and a gleaner—sweeping clean the debris and breaking those who will not bend. When Animals Speak
- Oddly enough it was Mr Ryan's rant on the editorial page complaining about how the media..the gleaner in particular was ignoring his organization while promoting Pro Choice that caused me to point out just how well his group plays the media game. Free Speech My Ass
- A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers.
- Look at the case recently mentioned in the Gleaner where some men were convicted of capital murder for a murder committed in the process of robbing a bank.