Grain gatherers

Usage examples of gleaners.

She must get back and oversee the harvest, make sure the cultivators weren't wasting their efforts on inferior plantings, gleaners weren't wandering aimlessly, breeders not swaggering about and boasting of the part they would play in the coming ceremony.

With sanitizers and cultivators, even gleaners, though they were named differently then.

The Gleaners stripped off their contaminated sheets, then hung slender swords behind their backs.

In the gray light of morning the Gleaners spoke together, waved at the brightening land, then more or less fell over in a pile.

At least the Gleaners didn’t have a habit found in other hominids: changing the flavor of meat by rubbing it with salt or herbs or berries.

They were half as many or a bit more, plus a hundred of Gleaners and four of our Machine People.

The Gleaners and Machine People and an undersized Grass Giant woman named Twuk tried to get something going.

Silack of the Gleaners, Tegger, and Chaychind all cringed away with wide eyes and open mouths.

These are Anakrin and Warvia of the Red Herders, Perilack and Manack of the Gleaners, Chitakumishad and Sopashintay of the Machine People—“ picking them out as and when she thought they had recovered their aplomb.

Any parasites had been washed away, but Gleaners were good at finding a phantom itch.

Or if Gleaners run faster than Reds, faster than Tegger at a dead scared run, then something else might run faster than Gleaners.

The Gleaners and Reds were far ahead of her and the other Machine People.

Without their robes, the Sand People were small and compact: as short as Gleaners, with broader torsos and lean arms and legs.

As a gleaner, it was not her function to scout, though sometimes gleaners were required to venture far afield to find enough fresh provisions for the entire colony.

It was, after all, the bred-in function of gleaners to gather things and bring them back to the compound, and so she had found this alien and brought it here.