noun cleaning; afterbirth.
2. glean ·noun a collection made by gleaning.
3. glean ·vi to pick up or gather anything by degrees.
4. glean ·vt to gather from (a field or vineyard) what is left.
5. glean ·vi to gather stalks or ears of grain left by reapers.
6. glean ·vt to collect with patient and minute labor; to pick out; to obtain.
7. glean ·vt to gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.