Gleaner
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
One who gathers after reapers.
noun.
One who gathers slowly and assiduously.
noun.
A short-handled oyster-rake used by men wading in the water to gather oysters from the beds.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
One who gathers after reapers.
noun.
One who gathers slowly with labor.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
One who
gleans
.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun.
someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
noun.
someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
Word Usage
"One gleaner from Aix-en-Provence explains that he lives on 90 euros a month: Istarted looking through bins because I was hard-up."
Form
foliage-gleaner
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
accumulator
collector
farm worker
farmhand
field hand
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
creaming
currying
dousing
dressing-down
faultiness