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gleaner
[ glee-ner ]
noun
- 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.
- 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.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gleaner1
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Example Sentences
You have gleaned from the news that the man in the video has left behind unpaid rent, traffic fines, credit card bills.
Just what happened before Carson’s departure must be largely gleaned from the investigators’ report.
The estimate was made using data gleaned from a network that monitors influenza-like illnesses in United States.
The insights gleaned from search trends and queries, local search analytics, and on-site activity will help inform the decisions your business must make going forward.
The data gleaned will move through the internet to a secure computer.
Even after being diagnosed with tennis elbow, she continued working as a gleaner at a garlic farm.
The reaper must leave something for the gleaner; even the ox cannot be muzzled as he treadeth out the corn.
I have seen at least one specimen of this lady's poetry in one of the volumes of Mr. Pratt's Gleaner.
Really, Leila, you are certainly a successful information gleaner, Nella regarded her room-mate with an amused smile.
Hyacinth left the Rectory that night with three well-read numbers of the Gleaner in his pocket.
But the entrance is without rock scenery, and the student of its geology must be a patient gleaner along its shores.
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