Talk:glean

Etymology
I am no expert but I think the french and english words are related : to glean, glaner...

La forme glener est attestée au XIIIe siècle. Issu du bas latin glenare (« glaner »), dérivé d’un radical gaulois *glenn-.


 * Thanks. DCDuring TALK 15:03, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Before the advent of modern agriculture, women often had to glean.
Men did this work too! Depending on the area, different regulations applied: -- Large farms ordered "gleaning" for the farmhands and maidservants -- a second "gleaning" was only available to the poorer sections of the population or -- Gleaning was generally a right of the poor. This work was always done by men, women and children!

--2003:E5:9F3C:D00:222:FAFF:FEB0:44A8 09:55, 10 July 2024 (UTC)