gleanings

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In another scene in the documentary, she holds out one hand piled with the latest Clematis gleanings, each seed still attached to its feathery brown tail.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2024

You can also sign up to participate in the organization's farmers market gleanings, collecting boxes of fresh produce from local farmers to donate to various direct-service agencies for the needy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2014

It's clearly the gleanings of a lifetime's reading, and Crotty has walked a nice line between poetry that deals with Ireland, with questions of Irish character and history, and poetry qua poetry.

From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2010

As she picked up the gleanings in the gathering dusk, Ms. Baldwin recalled people telling her that she and Ms. Merrow couldn’t grow wheat on the East End, that the climate wasn’t right.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2010

Bands of displaced peasants roamed the razed countryside, fighting the crows for gleanings.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor