GLEAN
- to gather grain or other produce left by reapers.
- To glean is to gather or collect something bit by bit, or in a gradual way. Glean can also be used to mean “to search (something) carefully” and “to find out.”
- to gather little by little [v GLEANED, GLEANING, GLEANS]
- to collect (information) little by little
- to gather (grain) left by the reapers