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UK
/ɡlˈiːnɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
- someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
How To Use gleaner In A Sentence
- I had a look at the Gleaner's cartoon just now and I nearly died laughing!
- Today's gleaners are a disparate bunch: artists and activists, spendthrifts and street kids.
- They include the Alagoas foliage-gleaner (Philydor noveasi, CR) and the Alagoas antwren (Myrmotherula snowi, CR). Biological diversity in the Atlantic Forest
- When World War II broke out he was serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Gleaner, but was posted soon after to the repair ship HMS Resource as First Lieutenant.
- It seemed wrong to him, unjust, and in strict disaccordance with the views of the _Gleaner_, that these thousands should be locked up for one man's pleasure, while starvation levied its toll upon the many. The Sins of Séverac Bablon
- The gleaners gathered up the loose ears of corns.
- What kinds of virtues are required to succeed as gleaner?
- Only by listening to the gleaners, those picking at the forgotten edges of the field, will we understand the real beauty of the landscape we are creating.
- Many food banks provide volunteer gleaners, or pickers, who will come to your house to pick the fruit.
- They are not the same for the gleaner in the field, for the girl who sews at fifteen sous a day, for the daughter of a petty shopkeeper, for the young bourgoise, for the child of a rich merchant, for the heiress of a noble family, for a daughter of the house of Este. Modeste Mignon