Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
- 3transitive verb
To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
- 4intransitive verb
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
- 5intransitive verb
To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
- 6noun
A collection made by gleaning.
- 7noun
Cleaning; afterbirth.
- 8verb
gather, as of natural products
"harvest the grapes"
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