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Definition of Gleaner
1. Noun. Someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters.
2. Noun. Someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully.
Definition of Gleaner
1. n. One who gathers after reapers.
Definition of Gleaner
1. Noun. One who gleans. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gleaner
1. one that gleans [n -S] - See also: gleans
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gleaner
Literary usage of Gleaner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1844)
"But there is assuredly in this no reason for such extraordinary behaviour as has
been shewn in editing the "gleaner." Shakspeare, Milton, Thomson, Pope, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... To mark the last bright tints the mountain stain, On the waste fields to trace
the gleaner's way, And moralize on mortal joy and pain ? ..."
3. The Anniversary: Or Poetry and Prose for MDCCCXXIX by Allan Cunningham (1829)
"COME, wrinkled age, come, laughing youth, The sun is bright and the breeze is
south ; The reapers are in the fields, and here They leave for the gleaner the ..."
4. The Memorial History of Boston: Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts by Justin Winsor, Clarence F.. Jewett (1881)
"(See gleaner Articles, No. 50, for early titles hereabout.) Richard Cooke died
in 1671, and the property fell to his son Elisha, who died in 1715. ..."
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