1. collected or gathered leftover grain or other crops from a field after the main harvest
Usage: past tense and past participle of glean; historically common agricultural practice
2. obtained or extracted information, knowledge, or details gradually or with effort from various sources
Usage: past tense and past participle of glean; figurative use

Examples

• The farmers gleaned the fields after the wheat harvest was complete.
• She gleaned useful insights from the research papers she read.
• They gleaned information about the company from multiple news sources.
• In medieval times, poor families gleaned grain to survive the winter.
• The journalist gleaned details about the story from interviews with witnesses.
• He gleaned what he could from the old documents in the archive.