Definition of "gleanings" []

• Things that have been collected bit by bit: the gleanings of patient scholars. (noun-plural)

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.

• "These gleanings from a single day of online news dispatches should be enough to deflate even the proudest member of the boomer clan."
• "So it was last week when, timed carefully to cash in on the Easter holiday, the “serious” editors of National Geographic chose to release the gleanings from a sheaf of rags and call them “The Gospel of Judas.”"
• "Bella called our gleanings, "the harvest of a roving eye;" and children who live in the country will have no difficulty in gathering in such a harvest, as will suffice for the making of dozens of frames."