gleaner
Post-harvest scavenger
A gleaner is someone who gathers grain or other produce left behind after a harvest.
The term extends to anyone who collects scattered bits of information, material, or opportunities: The journalist was a tireless gleaner of facts from obscure sources.
Gleaning suggests patient, methodical gathering of what others have overlooked or discarded.
One who gathers crops
- scytheManual crop-cutting implement
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- sheafBound bundle of stalks
- fieldhandAgricultural worker outdoors
harvesting · gathering · picker · migrant · farmworker · stubble · leftover · grain
One who studies systematically
- compilerSource-to-machine-code translator
- collectorOne who gathers items
- curatorCollection overseer
- archivistKeeper of historical documents
gatherer · extractor · aggregator · synthesizer · investigator · sifter · data-mining · summarizer
Collection of people meeting
- foragerOne seeking wild food
- scavengingGathering discarded or dead material
- collectingGathering items over time
- scroungingSeeking handouts resourcefully
salvaging · hedgerow · berries · nuts · mushrooms · edibles · opportunist · resourcefulness
Careful use of resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- scrimpingExcessive thrift, stingy saving
- resourcefulnessAbility to solve problems creatively
salvaging · repurposing · prudence · stewardship · conservation · stretching · recovering · secondhand
reaper
One who gathers crops
- scytheManual crop-cutting implement
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- sheafBound bundle of stalks
fieldhand · harvesting · gathering · picker · migrant · farmworker · stubble · leftover · grain · barley
researcher
One who studies systematically
archivist · gatherer · extractor · aggregator · synthesizer · investigator · sifter · data-mining · summarizer · indexer
gathering
Collection of people meeting
- foragerOne seeking wild food
- scavengingGathering discarded or dead material
- collectingGathering items over time
scrounging · salvaging · hedgerow · berries · nuts · mushrooms · edibles · opportunist · resourcefulness · finder
thrift
Careful use of resources
- economySystem of trade and production
- parsimonyExcessive frugality with resources
- scrimpingExcessive thrift, stingy saving
resourcefulness · salvaging · repurposing · prudence · stewardship · conservation · stretching · recovering · secondhand · leftovers
- harvestreaping, fall harvest, wheat sheaf, reaper, reap
- farm equipmenttractor, tractors, plow, plows, plough
- farm workersfarmer, farmworker, hired hand, field hand, farm laborer
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
- rural peoplefarmer, villagers, farmhand, farmworker, farmers
- medieval workersserf, peasant, villein, bondsman, thrall
gleanerlandowner
One possessing real estate
estate owner · lord of the manor · squire · proprietor · wastrel