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    [Verb]  | "glean" | \ ˈglēn \


    1: to gather grain or other produce left by reapers

    2: to gather information or material bit by bit

    3: to pick up after a reaper


    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English glenen, from Anglo-French glener, from Late Latin glennare, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish doglenn he selects;

     [ "Gleaner" ]

    1: 1 - Someone that cleans up the scraps in a field after a harvester finishes gathering the ripe fruits and vegetables. 2 - A term for someone who has to settle for the crap left over after the more privileged individuals pick through first.

      * e.g.,  ... "The harvester just finished with the field. Go send the gleaners to clean up." "Last halloween my older brothers picked through my trick-or-treat bag and took all of my chocolate. All I had left were Smarties and raisins. I felt like a gleaner." 

     [ "Gleaner" ]

    1: To go into a discussion forum with the sole purpose of sending an derogatory but entirely truthful personal message to the owner, then posting a copy on the forum itself for all members to see. Especially refers to the owner of a website affectionately known as Woodchuck Underground. Generally doing this will cause the person who is gleaning to be lerkfished.

      * e.g.,  ... I really had to gleaner that guy after he banned all the progressive members from his website. 

     [ "HMS Gleaner" ]

    1: From the Wikipedia definition: The HMSML Gleaner (H86) was the smallest commissioned vessel in the Royal Navy, at the time of her decommissioning, with a length of just under 15 metres. Used to describe how small somebody's junk is.

      * e.g.,  ... Guy 1: Mate you've got such a HMS Gleaner 

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