glean
glean is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
- transitive verb. To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
- intransitive verb. To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
- intransitive verb. To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
- noun. A collection made by gleaning.
- noun. Cleaning; afterbirth.
- verb. gather, as of natural products
"harvest the grapes"
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Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in glean:
agnel, angel, angle, galen, genal, lagen, lange, nagel
Common word forms
gleans, gleaned, gleaner, gleaning, gleanable
Words from these letters
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