To gather after a reaper, or on a reaped field; bring together from a scattered condition, as grain left after the removal of the main crop.
Hence To collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels or portions; pick up here and there; gather slowly and assiduously.
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers; also, to collect or gather anything in a similar way.
noun.
A handful of corntied together by a gleaner.
noun.
Anything gathered or gleaned.
noun.
A somewhat indefinite unit; a bunch: as, a glean of teazels. [Essex and Gloucestershire, Eng.] A glean of herrings, by a statute of Edward I., is 25.
noun.
The afterbirth, as of a cow or other domestic animal; the cleaning.