1. Verb
To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.
2. Verb
To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
3. Verb
To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
4. Verb
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
5. Verb
To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
6. Noun
A collection made by gleaning.
7. Noun
Cleaning; afterbirth.
8. Verb
gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
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