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What is the noun for gleaner?

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gleaning
  1. Something learned by gleaning.
  2. The act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
  3. (ornithology) The catching of insects and other invertebrates by plucking them from within foliage, or sometimes from the ground. It may also be applied to where prey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-made surfaces such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses.
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glean
  1. (obsolete) cleaning; afterbirth
glean
  1. A collection made by gleaning.
gleaner
  1. One who gleans.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Even after being diagnosed with tennis elbow, she continued working as a gleaner at a garlic farm.”
      “It is the last 'scoop' that I have to offer to the gleaner, but it is the biggest of all!”
      “A wise man should learn good behaviour, good words and good acts from every side, as a gleaner collects grains of corn from the field abandoned by the reapers.”
gleanings
  1. plural of gleaning (act of harvesting leftover crops)
  2. (plural only) the crops leftover from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Suffering several weeks of temporary lameness, I have been taking taxis a good deal, and offer a few gleanings from recent experience.”
      “His writings about aspects of Chinese life combine published information, his own observations, and gleanings from his sources in China.”
      “It's reminiscent of other press gleanings, except that he makes no pretense that his work is objective.”
gleaners
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