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."
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