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Noun: gleaner  glee-nu(r)
  1. Someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
    "The poor were allowed to be gleaners in the fields after the harvest"
     
  2. Someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
    "The historian was a meticulous gleaner of historical facts"

Derived forms: gleaners

Type of: accumulator, collector, farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand, gatherer, rouseabout [Austral]

Encyclopedia: Gleaner