garner

plural garners

1. A granary; a store of grain.

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

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 144:13

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   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.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 3:12

2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.

   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.

   a. 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Death Shall Not Part Ye More

present singular third person garners · participle present garnering · participle past garnered · past garnered

1. transitiveTo reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.

   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.

   1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 195

2. transitiveTo gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.

   He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

   1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913

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

   1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2

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

   1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14

3. figurativelyoftentransitiveTo earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact

   To garner support

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   He garnered a reputation as a language expert.

   Her new book garnered high praise from the critics.

   His poor choices garnered him a steady stream of welfare checks.

   This country will never forget nor fail to honor those who have so courageously garnered our highest regard.

   1983, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5031

   President Roosevelt garnered the support of our working men and women to increase war production and build our "Arsenal of Democracy."

   1999, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 7259

   Synonyms: reap, gain

4. raretransitiveTo gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

   For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;

   1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto LXXXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

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   She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 9–10

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. A town in White County, Arkansas.
   2. A city, the county seat of Hancock County, Iowa.
   3. An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
   4. A town in Wake County, North Carolina.