garner vs glean

garner

verb
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. 

  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. 

  • To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. 

  • To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact 

noun
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. 

  • A granary; a store of grain. 

glean

verb
  • To collect what is left behind (grain, grapes, etc.) after the main harvest or gathering. 

  • To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit. 

  • To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). 

  • To frugally accumulate resources from low-yield contexts. 

noun
  • A collection made by gleaning. 

How often have the words garner and glean occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )