Seeing a word in context lets you glean information about how it's used. Glean means to gather bit by bit. You might say, "I couldn't understand her accent, but from what I could glean, she needs money to take the bus."
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
Verb
gather, as of natural products; "harvest the grapes"
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 gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
v. t.
To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to
obtain.
v. i.
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
v. i.
To pick up or gather anything by degrees.
n.
A collection made by gleaning.
n.
Cleaning; afterbirth.
Glean
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers.2.
Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate.
Glean
The gleans of yellow thyme distend his thighs.
Glean
To gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
A collection made by gleaning.
Cleaning; afterbirth.
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