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gleaner

[ glee-ner ]

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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.

Origin of gleaner¹

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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