Word of the Day
Wednesday, November 07, 2012glean
\ GLEEN \ , verb;
1.
To learn, discover, or find out, usually little by little or slowly.
2.
To gather (grain or the like) after the reapers or regular gatherers.
3.
To gather slowly and labouriously, bit by bit.
From what little I can glean, it's the edited journal of a voyage from Sydney
to California by a notary of San Francisco named Adam Ewing.
-- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas: a Novel
We all looked at each other, trying to glean something each from the other.
-- Bram Stoker, Dracula
Glean traces its origin back through Latin to the Celtic glan, "clean, pure." The
sense "to learn or gather slowly" appears in English before the sense of "to gather
grain left by the reapers."
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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