gleaning

[ glee-ning ]

/ ˈgli nɪŋ /

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noun

the act of a person who gleans.

gleanings, things found or acquired by gleaning.

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Origin of gleaning

First recorded in 1400–50, gleaning is from the late Middle English word glenynge.See glean, -ing¹

In bat species that could both glean and hawk, gleaning behavior decreased and hawking increased when the researchers increased whitewater noise volume.
As ‘phantom rivers’ roar, birds and bats change their hunting habits|Nikk Ogasa|June 15, 2021|Science News
And after gleaning the data from those races, they “plan to scale up and go big in 2016,” says McKinnon.
The New War on Big Money in Politics|Eleanor Clift|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One woman drove 50 miles home in the middle of the night after suddenly gleaning that her teen daughter was in trouble.
Knocking on Heaven's Door: True Stories of Unexplained, Uncanny Experiences at the Hour of Death|Patricia Pearson|August 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Two years ago, they began gleaning directly from farms to introduce more fresh produce into the diets of the people they serve.
Waste Not, Want Not|Katie Maloney|March 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST

This year they will also make an effort to involve people in the gleaning.
Waste Not, Want Not|Katie Maloney|March 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
They now organize field gleaning trips for anyone willing to participate, regardless of religious affiliation.
Waste Not, Want Not|Katie Maloney|March 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
All belonged to the first days in Egypt before he noticed anything; the mind worked backwards to their gleaning.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
A throng of young girls, gleaning, followed the reapers and raked up the ears that fell.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer
One had lost all his little store of grain gathered from the gleaning, or bought by great privation for the winter's nourishment.
The Seven Cardinal Sins: Envy and Indolence|Eugne Sue
An eminent jurisprudist once remarked to me, "there is little gleaning to be done after Bradlaugh."
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh|George W. Foote
This gleaning of intellectual men are full of social life, or, rather, of an interest in the problems of social existence.
The Hills and the Vale|Richard Jefferies