GLEANER Definition & Meaning

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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.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of gleaner¹

glean ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

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Mechanization soon followed, with threshing machines and combine harvesters leaving less behind for gleaners to collect.

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It just cannot produce louder calls than it does, because as a descendant of a gleaner it is probably morphologically limited.

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And of course Varda herself is the film’s chief gleaner: There is, as she says, “no law governing this type of gleaning — of images, impressions, emotions.”

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Watch how volunteer harvesters, otherwise known as gleaners, are helping to fight food waste straight from the source - the farms themselves.

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She cited a statue of nude washerwoman in Bologna dating to 2001, as well as a statue of a scantily clad gleaner unveiled last year.

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