gleaner
/ˈɡliːnər/
noun
- A person who collects leftover crops from fields after the main harvest.
- The gleaner walked through the wheat field, gathering the fallen stalks.
- The charity organized a group of gleaners to collect surplus vegetables for the food bank.
- In many cultures, gleaners were allowed to take what the harvesters left behind.
- A person who gathers information or knowledge bit by bit from various sources.
- The journalist was a careful gleaner of details from interviews and documents.
- He became a gleaner of local legends, collecting stories from old-timers in the village.
- As a gleaner of historical facts, she spent hours in the library archives.