Gleanings

//ˈɡliːnɪŋz// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of gleaning (“act of harvesting leftover crops”) form-of, plural
  2. 2
    the crops leftover from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest plural, plural-only

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""Thou, who alone Troy's sorrows deign'st to hear, / and us, the gleanings of the Danaan spear, / poor world-wide wanderers and in desperate case, / has ta'en to share thy city and thy cheer, / meet thanks nor we, nor what of Dardan race / yet roams the earth, can give to recompense thy grace.""

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