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Definition of "glean" []

  • To gather grain left behind by reapers. (verb-intransitive)
  • To gather (grain) left behind by reapers. (verb-transitive)
  • To collect bit by bit: "records from which historians glean their knowledge” ( Kemp Malone). See Synonyms at reap. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "glean" in a sentence
  • "So I forced myself to watch all the other Youtube clips of these two attractive archers, took a few notes on what I could glean from the clips and began Googling."
  • "The law is about sales and distribution. it does not cover making your own at home and smoking them as far as i have been able to glean from the law."
  • "I did an approximation of the focus/genre of the novels from what I could glean from the brief blurbs, and came up with this:"