Usually means: Collecting leftover crops after harvest.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word gleaning:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. gleaning: Merriam-Webster
  2. gleaning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. gleaning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Gleaning, gleaning: Wordnik
  5. gleaning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. gleaning: Wiktionary
  7. gleaning: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Gleaning, gleaning: Dictionary.com
  9. gleaning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Gleaning (birds), Gleaning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Gleaning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. gleaning: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Gleaning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. gleaning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. gleaning: FreeDictionary.org
  16. Gleaning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. gleaning: Legal dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gleaning: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gleaning)

noun:  Something learned by gleaning.
noun:  The act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
noun:  (ornithology) The catching of insects and other invertebrates by plucking them from within foliage, or sometimes from the ground. It may also be applied to where prey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-made surfaces such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses.

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