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gleaning
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Gleaning is 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. Some ancient cultures promoted gleaning as an early form of a welfare system. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gleaning \Glean"ing\, n. The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning. Glenings of natural knowledge. --Cook.
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something learned by gleaning. 2 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. 3 (context ornithology English) The catching of ...
Usage examples of gleaning.
Revel, the dancers spinning and gliding in the streets, the falconers displaying the talents of their birds, the tournaments of strength and speed and sword skill waged by men of fighting age, the gleaning remained its most important element, just as it lay at the core of the traveling festivals found in the other kingdoms of the Forelands.
Grinsa and the other Qirsi gleaners, the growing season meant not warm nights and cool breezes, but rather stifling days spent in the still air of the gleaning tent.
He alone among those standing outside the gleaning tent in the marketplace of Curgh City had nothing to fear from the Qiran.
Tavis within the stone, the wretched prisoner, turned his head to look directly at the Tavis in the gleaning tent.
Tavis and Xaver, Grinsa rested, allowing Cresenne and then Trin, the eldest of the gleaners and the man in charge of the gleaning tent, to do their share, before he finished the final few.
Even after he joined the Revel a year later, he avoided Trin and the other Qirsi, passing what little time he spent away from the gleaning tent and his room with Eandi singers and dancers.
Had his gleaning been of glory and long life, the fate that awaited Tavis in Kentigern might arouse memories of Filib of Thorald and his untimely death.
His thirst for wine and ale, on the other hand, had never been greater, and though he had not drunk himself into a rage again, the way he did the night of his gleaning, he had been quietly drunk nearly every night since.
Even before his eyes adjusted to the shadows, he understood that this was the prison he had seen in the gleaning tent.
That was where Tavis and his father had gone, and Grinsa was certain that the recurrence of the image meant that the gleaning had already been realized.
All she had to do was seduce him, learn what she could of the gleaning, and leave him.
An Eandi watching the gleaning might have thought that she saw an early death for her son, or some unspeakable disgrace.
But more than that, with gleaning, shaping, and healing, the mind-bending magic gave the man four types of power, an uncommonly large number for even the most powerful Qirsi.
But something must have happened to lure him out of the gleaning tent.
When Grinsa and the young lord awoke, the gleaning tent was already raised, its flags visible from their window.