Gleaning

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: glean=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

Gleaning, n. 

 The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.  [1913 Webster]
"Glenings of natural knowledge."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

Gleaning

accumulation, amassment, ana, analects, anthology, assembling, bringing together, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, clippings, collectanea, collection, crop, cumulation, cutting, cuttings, dividends, earnings, excerpta, excerpts, extracts, filthy lucre, florilegium, flowers, fragments, gain, gains, gathering, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, harvest, harvesting, hoard, income, interest, killing, lucre, makings, miscellanea, miscellany, neat profit, net, net profit, nutting, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, proceeds, profit, profits, rake-off, reaping, receipts, return, returns, store, take, take-in, wealth, winnings

ROGET THESAURUS

Gleaning

Choice

N choice, option, discretion, preoption, alternative, dilemma, embarras de choix, adoption, cooptation, novation, decision, election, political election (politics), selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism, excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste, pick, preference, prelation, opinion poll, survey, predilection, optional, discretional, eclectic, choosing, preferential, chosen, choice, optionally, at pleasure, either the one or the other, or at the option of, whether or not, once and for all, for one's money, by choice, by preference, in preference, rather, before.