gleann.¹

Brit.

/ɡliːn/, U.S.

/ɡlin/

Forms: Also Middle English glene.

Etymology: < Old French glene, glane = medieval Latin glena , glana , noun, related to Old French glener , late Latin glenāre to glean v.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

Something gleaned or gathered.

1. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > gleaning > gleanings

gleanc1430

single?a1513

songal1674

earns1695

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 98 A braunche of vynes..hym thought he dide se, And therwithe al a gracious gleene [printed gleeve] of whete.

c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/ i (MS. K) Glene, spicatum.

1602 Withals' Dict. 87 A gleane or heape of Corne, commonly gathered and bound by handfuls together, spicilegium.

a1728 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 1033 (Promp. Parv. 199 (note) ) A glean, a handfull of corne gleaned and tied up by the gleaner or reaper. Kent.

1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. (at cited word)

figurative and in extended use.1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 153 in 2 Serm. Abraham gleaned a great gleane of Faith.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 The gleans of yellow Thime distend his Thighs.

2. A sheaf of hemp; a bundle of teasels (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > sheaf or bundle of other crops

glean1664

sheaf oats1765

1664 Instr. Jury-men on Comm. Sewers 41 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Glean, a sheaf of hemp.

1794 Gen. View Agric. Essex (Messrs. Griggs) 19 These heads [of teasel] are..bound up in small bunches, or gleans, of five and twenty heads each.

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 157 For which purpose they tie it in gleans single.

1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 i. 177 The price of pulling 100 gleans [of hemp] (as they were termed) was 1s... Set it up in stooks of five or six gleans.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

gleanv.

Brit.

/ɡliːn/, U.S.

/ɡlin/

Forms: Middle English glene, 1500s–1600s gleane, (Middle English–1500s gleyne, 1500s glayne, gleme, gleame, gleime), 1600s– glean.

Etymology: < Old French glener, glainer (French glaner) to glean = Provençal glenar, grenar, late Latin (6th cent.) glenare, of unknown origin. The commonly assumed connection with medieval Latin gelima, Old English gielm, sheaf, is inadmissible; the forms with m are probably due to association with gleam.

1. intransitive. To gather or pick up ears of corn which have been left by the reapers.In the southern and western counties the popular word is lease v.¹ (cf. quot. 1393).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > glean

leasec1000

gleanc1385

songowa1541

earn1695

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 75 Ye han her beforne Of makynge ropen and lad awey the Corne; And I come after, glening here and there.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 67 Alle þat helpen me to erye other elles to weden, Shal haue leue..to go and glene after [B. to lese here in heruest].

1483 Cath. Angl. 158/2 To Glene, aristare.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 568/1 Put nat your horses in to the corne felde yet, for my folkes have nat gleaned there yet.

a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 92 In harvest tyme, whilest she myght goo and glyne.

1611 Bible (King James) Ruth ii. 7 I pray you, let mee gleane and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaues.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 212 The poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another's ground after the harvest, without being guilty of trespass.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 424 They reap, and I glean. I carry then to the common heap a few ears picked behind their steps [etc.].

1898 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 397 Mary was gleaning in a field of corn.

a. transitive. To gather or pick up (ears of corn or other produce) after the reapers, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > glean

leasec1000

glean1532

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv^v Yet also haue I leue..to come after..these great workmen, and glene my handfuls of the shedynge after theyr handes.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gleme corne, spicilegium facere.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii/2 To Gleame corne, spiciligere.

1611 Bible (King James) Ruth ii. 2 Let me now goe to the field, and gleane eares of corne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 103 I shall thinke it a most plenteous crop To gleane the broken eares after the man That the maine haruest reapes.

1832 H. Martineau Ireland ii. 31 They might glean potatoes enough among the ridges, after the digging, to keep them for a few days.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 402 How much has yet to be gleaned off this stony field.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. 536 After his harvesting, the men must glean What he had left.

b. To strip (a field, vineyard, etc.) of the produce left by the regular gatherers.

ΚΠ

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1566) xvi. M v b Other gathered the grapes & thou gleynedest the vyne.

1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xix. 10 Thou shalt not gleane thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather euery grape of thy vineyard.

1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 136 She went..To glean Palæmon's fields. [‘Very common in Suffolk’ (F. Hall).]

figurative.1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 208 The pillage of the poore people? which are to sore gleaned: by the needie and neuer contented professours?1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 73 God..will not, as it were, glean Ephraim, going over it again, as man doth, in order to leave nothing over.

a. transferred and figurative. To gather or pick up in small quantities; to scrape together. Now chiefly with immaterial object, esp. to glean information, to glean experience, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > in small quantities

gleanc1350

c1350 Wynnere & Wastoure 231 in Gollancz Parl. 3 Ages Alle þat I wynn thurgh witt he wastes thurgh pryde; I geder, I glene, and hee lattys goo sone.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 954 In þat oþer [Jerusalem] is noȝt bot pes to glene.

a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 495 For alle the good that men may rippe and glene Wasted is in outrageous aray.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 362 In flood, or lene Cley lond, or nigh the see, grauel let glene.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 95 He gleaneth whatsoeuer is good or ought woorth through his whole kingdome.

1604 E. Grimeston in tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies Ded. sig. A 3 The advantage I have gleaned from idle hours..is commended to your Honors Patronage.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 224 A hundred others haue since that gleaned seuerall additions of Titles and new names their distributed.

1673 Ld. Aungier in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 60 Calling upon S^r Arthur Forbes, I have glean'd from him what I am now to tell y^r Ex^cye.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 4 From them [he] gleaned materials which he formed into a regular history.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxix. 95 For many a joy could he from Night's soft presence glean.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 56 A few examples have been gleaned from mediæval Chronicles.

†b. To gather or collect into (one receptacle, one mass). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather into one body or receptacle

glean1540

1540 King Henry VIII in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 228 Where the sayde Sir Anthony shall fynde the Kynges Majestes landes be otherwise surveyed, or otherwise glayned in to oon hande.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 285 Yes, that goodnesse Of gleaning all the Lands wealth into one, Into your owne hands (Card'nall) by Extortion.

1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 154 Oppressed factions when they seeme utterly extinct, gleaning themselves into a head [etc.].

c. With adverbs; esp. to glean up, to gather up, collect. Also †to glean away, to carry off; †to glean out, to ascertain by investigation of details. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 90 The plague..which gleaned away many thousand people.

1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 105 His stay in England was..spent in gleaning out what possible this kingdome could yeeld.

1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 501 By which means you have been enabled..to glean up your præinformations how the sands have lain.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 104 They Glean up Custom from their Neighbours; and so what one gets, the other loses.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 375 The several little Springs and Rills, that break out of the Sides of the Mountain, are glean'd up, and conveyed..into the main Hollow of the Aqueduct.

1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. vii, in Author's Farce 40 He does not only glean up all the Bad Words of his own..Nay, i gad, I have made New Words and spoil'd Old ones too.

1844 J. R. Lowell Pres. Crisis in Poet. Wks. (1890) I. 183 While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

†d. To cut off (a remnant or stragglers) in warfare. Also to glean up. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (transitive)] > cut off

glean1611

to cut off1823

1611 Bible (King James) Judges xx. 45 And they gleaned of them in the high wayes fiue thousand men.

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 121 Those horse that were in the Garrison following their reare glean'd up two Lieftenants and two or three other Officers.

a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. xi. 306 Bowmen..on the Danish camp discharge a Show'r To glean the Danes the Wolves should not devour.

1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 77 When we perceived the general rout, we..pursu'd them as Hounds do Stags, gleaning now and then some of them.

Derivatives

gleaned adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired

yfetc893

begottenOE

conquestc1330

gottena1400

achieveda1460

obtent?a1475

acquired?1483

obtained1520

acquisite1528

got?1548

adepted1553

won1553

gained1598

acquisited1613

acquisted1613

gleaneda1616

attained1861

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 151 The Scot..Came pouring like the Tyde..Galling the gleaned Land with hot Assayes.

1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory iii, in Poems 59 Showering thy gleanéd wealth into my open breast.

1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 410 Few families make their own bread, except from the flour of their ‘gleant corn’.

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.

ˈgleanable adj. that may be gleaned.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > gleaning > gleanable

gleanable1876

1876 G. MacDonald Thomas Wingfold xx. 175 Fields..gleanable for generations.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	glean
释义	gleann.¹ Brit. /ɡliːn/, U.S. /ɡlin/ Forms: Also Middle English glene. Etymology: < Old French glene, glane = medieval Latin glena , glana , noun, related to Old French glener , late Latin glenāre to glean v. Obsolete exc. dialect. Something gleaned or gathered. 1. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > gleaning > gleanings gleanc1430 single?a1513 songal1674 earns1695 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 98 A braunche of vynes..hym thought he dide se, And therwithe al a gracious gleene [printed gleeve] of whete. c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum 199/ i (MS. K) Glene, spicatum. 1602 Withals' Dict. 87 A gleane or heape of Corne, commonly gathered and bound by handfuls together, spicilegium. a1728 W. Kennett MS Lansdowne 1033 1033 (Promp. Parv. 199 (note) ) A glean, a handfull of corne gleaned and tied up by the gleaner or reaper. Kent. 1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. (at cited word) figurative and in extended use.1654 T. Fuller Comment on Ruth 153 in 2 Serm. Abraham gleaned a great gleane of Faith.1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 The gleans of yellow Thime distend his Thighs. View more context for this quotation 2. A sheaf of hemp; a bundle of teasels (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > sheaf or bundle of other crops glean1664 sheaf oats1765 1664 Instr. Jury-men on Comm. Sewers 41 in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Glean, a sheaf of hemp. 1794 Gen. View Agric. Essex (Messrs. Griggs) 19 These heads [of teasel] are..bound up in small bunches, or gleans, of five and twenty heads each. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 157 For which purpose they tie it in gleans single. 1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 i. 177 The price of pulling 100 gleans [of hemp] (as they were termed) was 1s... Set it up in stooks of five or six gleans. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † gleann.² Etymology: A variant of clean (? < clean v.), which has the same sense in some modern dialects; also called cleaning and cleansing. Obsolete. The placenta or after-birth, esp. of a cow. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > [noun] > parts of > placenta and related parts glean1601 placenta1638 subplacenta1807 trophocalyx1889 trophodisc1889 trophosphere1889 trophospongia1889 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > membranes, etc., of embryo or fetus > [noun] > placenta secundine1398 afterburden?a1450 second birtha1513 afterbirth1527 second1562 glean1601 bed1611 placenta1638 sooterkina1658 womb-cake1657 womb-liver1657 womb-pancake1663 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives birth > afterbirth glean1601 cleaning1661 cleansing1810 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 327 The gleane of a Cow hauing newly calued..is good for any vlcers of the visage. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 341 The pellicle or glean wherein a kid was infolded within the dams wombe. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June xiii. 150 To..bring away her [sc. a cow's] Glean. Derivatives † glean v. Obsolete to cast the placenta. ΚΠ 1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May vi. 107 To make a Cow glean well, and keep her in Health. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). gleanv. Brit. /ɡliːn/, U.S. /ɡlin/ Forms: Middle English glene, 1500s–1600s gleane, (Middle English–1500s gleyne, 1500s glayne, gleme, gleame, gleime), 1600s– glean. Etymology: < Old French glener, glainer (French glaner) to glean = Provençal glenar, grenar, late Latin (6th cent.) glenare, of unknown origin. The commonly assumed connection with medieval Latin gelima, Old English gielm, sheaf, is inadmissible; the forms with m are probably due to association with gleam. 1. intransitive. To gather or pick up ears of corn which have been left by the reapers.In the southern and western counties the popular word is lease v.¹ (cf. quot. 1393). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest [verb (intransitive)] > glean leasec1000 gleanc1385 songowa1541 earn1695 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 75 Ye han her beforne Of makynge ropen and lad awey the Corne; And I come after, glening here and there. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. ix. 67 Alle þat helpen me to erye other elles to weden, Shal haue leue..to go and glene after [B. to lese here in heruest]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 158/2 To Glene, aristare. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 568/1 Put nat your horses in to the corne felde yet, for my folkes have nat gleaned there yet. a1542 T. Wyatt Coll. Poems (1969) 92 In harvest tyme, whilest she myght goo and glyne. 1611 Bible (King James) Ruth ii. 7 I pray you, let mee gleane and gather after the reapers amongst the sheaues. View more context for this quotation 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 212 The poor are allowed to enter and glean upon another's ground after the harvest, without being guilty of trespass. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 424 They reap, and I glean. I carry then to the common heap a few ears picked behind their steps [etc.]. 1898 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 397 Mary was gleaning in a field of corn. 2. a. transitive. To gather or pick up (ears of corn or other produce) after the reapers, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > glean leasec1000 glean1532 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxv^v Yet also haue I leue..to come after..these great workmen, and glene my handfuls of the shedynge after theyr handes. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Gleme corne, spicilegium facere. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii/2 To Gleame corne, spiciligere. 1611 Bible (King James) Ruth ii. 2 Let me now goe to the field, and gleane eares of corne. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 103 I shall thinke it a most plenteous crop To gleane the broken eares after the man That the maine haruest reapes. View more context for this quotation 1832 H. Martineau Ireland ii. 31 They might glean potatoes enough among the ridges, after the digging, to keep them for a few days. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 402 How much has yet to be gleaned off this stony field. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. 536 After his harvesting, the men must glean What he had left. b. To strip (a field, vineyard, etc.) of the produce left by the regular gatherers. ΚΠ a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1566) xvi. M v b Other gathered the grapes & thou gleynedest the vyne. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xix. 10 Thou shalt not gleane thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather euery grape of thy vineyard. View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 136 She went..To glean Palæmon's fields. [‘Very common in Suffolk’ (F. Hall).] figurative.1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 208 The pillage of the poore people? which are to sore gleaned: by the needie and neuer contented professours?1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 73 God..will not, as it were, glean Ephraim, going over it again, as man doth, in order to leave nothing over. 3. a. transferred and figurative. To gather or pick up in small quantities; to scrape together. Now chiefly with immaterial object, esp. to glean information, to glean experience, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > in small quantities gleanc1350 c1350 Wynnere & Wastoure 231 in Gollancz Parl. 3 Ages Alle þat I wynn thurgh witt he wastes thurgh pryde; I geder, I glene, and hee lattys goo sone. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 954 In þat oþer [Jerusalem] is noȝt bot pes to glene. a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 495 For alle the good that men may rippe and glene Wasted is in outrageous aray. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 362 In flood, or lene Cley lond, or nigh the see, grauel let glene. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 95 He gleaneth whatsoeuer is good or ought woorth through his whole kingdome. 1604 E. Grimeston in tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies Ded. sig. A 3 The advantage I have gleaned from idle hours..is commended to your Honors Patronage. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 224 A hundred others haue since that gleaned seuerall additions of Titles and new names their distributed. 1673 Ld. Aungier in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 60 Calling upon S^r Arthur Forbes, I have glean'd from him what I am now to tell y^r Ex^cye. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 4 From them [he] gleaned materials which he formed into a regular history. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxix. 95 For many a joy could he from Night's soft presence glean. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 56 A few examples have been gleaned from mediæval Chronicles. †b. To gather or collect into (one receptacle, one mass). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather into one body or receptacle glean1540 1540 King Henry VIII in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 228 Where the sayde Sir Anthony shall fynde the Kynges Majestes landes be otherwise surveyed, or otherwise glayned in to oon hande. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 285 Yes, that goodnesse Of gleaning all the Lands wealth into one, Into your owne hands (Card'nall) by Extortion. View more context for this quotation 1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 154 Oppressed factions when they seeme utterly extinct, gleaning themselves into a head [etc.]. c. With adverbs; esp. to glean up, to gather up, collect. Also †to glean away, to carry off; †to glean out, to ascertain by investigation of details. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 90 The plague..which gleaned away many thousand people. 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 105 His stay in England was..spent in gleaning out what possible this kingdome could yeeld. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 501 By which means you have been enabled..to glean up your præinformations how the sands have lain. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 104 They Glean up Custom from their Neighbours; and so what one gets, the other loses. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 375 The several little Springs and Rills, that break out of the Sides of the Mountain, are glean'd up, and conveyed..into the main Hollow of the Aqueduct. 1730 H. Fielding Pleasures of Town iii. vii, in Author's Farce 40 He does not only glean up all the Bad Words of his own..Nay, i gad, I have made New Words and spoil'd Old ones too. 1844 J. R. Lowell Pres. Crisis in Poet. Wks. (1890) I. 183 While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn. †d. To cut off (a remnant or stragglers) in warfare. Also to glean up. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > manoeuvre > [verb (transitive)] > cut off glean1611 to cut off1823 1611 Bible (King James) Judges xx. 45 And they gleaned of them in the high wayes fiue thousand men. View more context for this quotation c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 121 Those horse that were in the Garrison following their reare glean'd up two Lieftenants and two or three other Officers. a1711 T. Ken Edmund in Wks. (1721) II. xi. 306 Bowmen..on the Danish camp discharge a Show'r To glean the Danes the Wolves should not devour. 1726 tr. J. Cavalier Mem. Wars Cevennes i. 77 When we perceived the general rout, we..pursu'd them as Hounds do Stags, gleaning now and then some of them. Derivatives gleaned adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired yfetc893 begottenOE conquestc1330 gottena1400 achieveda1460 obtent?a1475 acquired?1483 obtained1520 acquisite1528 got?1548 adepted1553 won1553 gained1598 acquisited1613 acquisted1613 gleaneda1616 attained1861 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) i. ii. 151 The Scot..Came pouring like the Tyde..Galling the gleaned Land with hot Assayes. View more context for this quotation 1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory iii, in Poems 59 Showering thy gleanéd wealth into my open breast. 1851 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 12 ii. 410 Few families make their own bread, except from the flour of their ‘gleant corn’. 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. ˈgleanable adj. that may be gleaned. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [adjective] > gleaning > gleanable gleanable1876 1876 G. MacDonald Thomas Wingfold xx. 175 Fields..gleanable for generations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1430n.²1601v.c1350
随便看	at wait at wale at walk at war at wars at washing at water sides at west at what time at whethers at whiles at wholesale at widest at wild at will at wish at with his own weapon or weapons at words at work at worst at worst hand at wrack at wrig-wrag at wrigwrag at year, year, and year

gleann.1

† gleann.2

Derivatives

gleanv.

Derivatives

gleann.¹

† gleann.²