gleaner

Other forms: gleaners

Definitions of gleaner
  1. noun
    someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
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    type of:
    accumulator, collector, gatherer
    a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
  2. noun
    someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
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    type of:
    farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand
    a hired hand on a farm
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