gleaner
Americannoun
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a person who gathers small amounts of grain or other produce left behind by regular harvesters, nowadays often for charitable use.
I volunteered as a gleaner for an agency that collects crop surplus to feed those in need.
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a person who gathers anything slowly or laboriously.
As an artist, I am a gleaner of shards and shiny bits to incorporate in my work.
Etymology
Origin of gleaner
Example Sentences
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It just cannot produce louder calls than it does, because as a descendant of a gleaner it is probably morphologically limited.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
And of course Varda herself is the film’s chief gleaner: There is, as she says, “no law governing this type of gleaning — of images, impressions, emotions.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
The poem is written from the point of view of a female gleaner - someone who collected grain left in fields by harvesters.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2021
She has always seen herself as something of a gleaner.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2018
I don’t try to read a great, serious, boundless thing like a daily newspaper, unfolded out of starlight, gleaner of a thousand sunsets around a world, and talk at the same time.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Lee, Gerald Stanley
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