glean > define

verb

• Gather, as of natural products.
  • usage: "harvest the grapes"
  • synonyms: reap, harvest

• (v.i.) To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
• (n.) Cleaning; afterbirth.
• (v.i.) To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
• (v.t.) To gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
• (n.) A collection made by gleaning.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.