| 单词 | after-gathering | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasafter-gathering   after-gathering  n.  Brit.  , U.S.   		 (a) fruit or crops gathered after the initial harvest, reaping, etc.; gleaning; an item of fruit or a crop so gathered; also figurative (now rare);		 (b) a social gathering which takes place after an event; an after-party.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > 			[noun]		 > gleaning gleaningc1440 after-gathering1530 leasing1534 1530    Bible 		(Tyndale)	 Lev. xxiii. f. xlii  				When ye repe doune youre haruest, thou shalt not make..any aftergatheringe of thy haruest: but shalt leue them vnto the poore and the straunger. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 Judges viii. 2  				Is not the after~gadderynge of Ephraim better then the whole haruest of Abieser? a1602    W. Perkins Godly & Learned Expos. Serm. in Mount 		(1608)	 192  				The husbandman must not gather his grapes cleane, nor yet his corne field, but leaue the after-gathering and gleaning for the poore. 1836    Farmer's Mag. Dec. 420/1  				Were any enterprizing person to purchase the after-gatherings of the spoiled potatoes [etc.] 1900    J. E. Carpenter  & G. Harford-Battersby Hexateuch I. App. 226/2  				Forgotten sheaves in harvest, and the after-gathering of olive trees and vines to be left for the poor. 1906    Arbitrator June 9/2  				At the after gathering in the Assembly Room, the delegates were welcomed by Mr. Barrow Cadbury. 2009    S. L. O'Shea Blue Life..Pink Heart 191  				A part of this type training entailed going to peer group meetings, but also the after gatherings, which were unscheduled, informal social events. < as lemmas  | 
	
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