| Title: | Glean |
| Original Title: | Glaner |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 7 (1757), p. 704 |
| Author: | Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville (biography) |
| Translator: | Ann-Marie Thornton [Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey] |
| Subject terms: |
Gardening
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| Original Version (ARTFL): | Link |
| Source: | Russell, Terence M. and Anne Marie Thornton. Gardens and landscapes in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert : the letterpress articles and selected engravings. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999. Used with permission. |
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| URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.065 |
| Citation (MLA): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Glean." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.065>. Trans. of "Glaner," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757. |
| Citation (Chicago): | Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine-Joseph. "Glean." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Ann-Marie Thornton. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.065 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Glaner," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:704 (Paris, 1757). |
To glean, generally used with reference to corn which has fallen into a harvested field and which women come to gather once the corn has been sheafed.