Garner

/ˈɡɑː.nə/ · noun

Meaning

A granary; a store of grain..

Definitions by Sense

1. A granary; a store of grain.
2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
3. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
4. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
5. (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
6. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

Example Sentences

That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets.

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Master, I bring from many wanderings, The gathered garner of my years to thee; One precious fruit of many rain-blown springs And sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.

The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.

He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

[…] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather.

[…] its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.

To garner support

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Word Forms

• garners
• garnering
• garnered

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