单词 | gleaning |
释义 | gleaningn. The action of glean v.; also (chiefly plural) that which is or may be gleaned. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > gleaning gleaningc1440 after-gathering1530 leasing1534 the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired strainc950 i-winc1000 winc1175 winninga1300 purchasec1325 by-gatec1330 getc1390 gettingc1400 acquisition1477 conquest1556 gleaning1576 acquiring1606 acquest1622 acquist1635 attain1661 obtainment1829 acquiree1950 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/1 Glenynge, conspicacio. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Micah vii. 1 Wo is me: I am become as one, that goeth a gleenynge in the haruest. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Glemynge of corne, spicilegium. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Racematio..the gleiminge of grapes. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Dionysius Antiochenus in Panoplie Epist. 303 Not the whole and perfect harvest, yet some gleanings of pleasure. 1611 Bible (King James) Judges viii. 2 Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better then the vintage of Abiezer? View more context for this quotation 1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 45 In full fields, The gleanings are allowed. a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 102 in Wks. (1640) III Twice-twelve-yeares stor'd up humanitie, With humble Gleanings in Divinitie; After the Fathers. 1702 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1870) IX. 101 I must still crave leave to add the following gleanings. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vi. 207 The victorious troops..found there a considerable booty, consisting..of the gleanings of the Indian treasures. 1846 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 II. ix. 373 They are tenanted by various barbarous races..subsisting on the produce of their cattle, the gleanings of the chase [etc.]. 1881 E. A. Freeman Sketch Subj. Lands Venice 320 The second Mahomet..brought under his power, as a gleaning after the vintage, the Frank lordship of Attica [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > as lemmasˈgleaning ˈgleaning adj. ΚΠ 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Spicardino ingegno, a..loose gadding, skipping or gleaning wit. 1693 G. Stepney tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires viii. 155 Your Cruel Guilt will little Booty find, Since gleaning Marius has already seiz'd All that from Sun-burnt Africk can be squees'd. < n.c1440 as lemmas |
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