to glean 1. To gather (information) bit by bit “records from which historians glean their knowledge” (Kemp Malone).
2. To gather the useful remnants of; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.To collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain. [Old French glener]
3. To find out; learn, discover, gather, ferret out, get wind of. 4. Cleaning; afterbirth. [Obs.] Holland.
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