garner

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1. 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.

   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.

2. 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.

verbe

1. 1

   To 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.

2. 2

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

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

   He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.

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

3. 3

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

   To garner support

   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.

4. 4

   rareTo gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.

   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.

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

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