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gleanings

US // (ˈɡliːnɪŋz) //

拾遗,拾穗,拾荒,拾金不昧

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : the useful remnants of a crop that can be gathered from the field after harvesting

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Examples

  • He has done better than any other among the witnesses of Lucifer in his gleanings from Éliphas Lévi.

  • In going over the ground surveyed by him and by many other scholars I have been able to add but slight gleanings of my own.

  • The Journal grows dry and devoid of dramatic interest, and our gleanings from it will be few.

  • With a dip into a volume called Days of the Spinning Wheel, we bring our old-time gleanings to a close.

  • Any one who wishes it can find the estimates set out in detail in the third and seventh volumes of "The Gleanings."