noun
1. someone who picks up grain left in the field by the harvesters
• Derivationally related forms: ↑glean
• Hypernyms: ↑farmhand, ↑fieldhand, ↑field hand, ↑farm worker
2. someone who gathers something in small pieces (e.g. information) slowly and carefully
• Hypernyms: ↑collector, ↑gatherer, ↑accumulator
Useful english dictionary. 2012.