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gleaner|ˈgliːnə(r)|
Also 5 glenar, -er, 6 gleamer.
[f. glean v. + -er1; cf. OF. glenere, F. glaneur.]
One that gleans.
c1440Promp. Parv. 199/1 Glenar of corne, spicator. 1530Palsgr. 225/2 Glenar of corne, glanevr. 1552Huloet, Gleamer of corne, spicilegus. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones Pref. B iij, I have laboured as you see (good reder) like a poore gleaner or grape gatherer. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xix. 121 It is difficult for gleaners, without stealing whole sheaves, to fill a barn. 1713Bentley Freethinking ii. §46 Wks. 1838 III. 410 O wretched gleaner of weeds! Has he read that noble work, The Intellectual System, to no better purpose? 1730–46Thomson Autumn 165 The gleaners spread around, and here and there, Spike after spike, their scanty harvest pick. 1878J. E. Jenkins Haverholme 39 Such figures..may be picked out day by day by the careful gleaner in the throng.
Comb.1814Cary Dante, Par. xxxii. 7 [Ruth] the gleaner-maid.
Hence † ˈgleaneress, a female gleaner.
1611Cotgr. Grappeuse, a grape-gleaneresse. 1632Sherwood, A gleaneresse of grapes. |