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▪ I. garner, n.|ˈgɑːnə(r)|
Forms: 2–4 gerner(e, 4 gerniere, 5 garnar, 6 garnard(e, -erde, -yer, 3– garner.
[a. OF. gerner, gernier, grenier storehouse, garret:—L. grānārium (usually grānāria pl), granary, f. grānum grain. Now less common than granary, except in rhetorical language. See also garnel1, garnery, girnel.]
A storehouse for corn, granary.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 85 Þet corn me deð in to gerner, þet bitakeneð þe gode men þe scule bon idon in to heuene. a1300Cursor M. 4689 Garners [Gött. gerneris] and granges fild [he] wit sede, Maa þan i wit tung can rede. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxviii. (1495) 711 Whete is throsshen other trode to haue the moost pure in to bernes other garners. 1496–7Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 13 §12 The same Corne..remayneth in the Berne Garner or in Stackis. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 42 b, The Garners, or corne loftes, wherein your Corne thus threasshed and cleansed shalbe layde, must stande hye. 1638Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death 31 Garners, in Vaults under Ground, wherein they keepe Wheat and other Graines. a1764Lloyd Henriade Poet. Wks. 1774 II. 238 Their garners bursting with their golden grain. 1824Landor Imag. Conv. (1826) I. 44 Your horse will not gallop far without them, though you empty into his manger all the garners of Surrey. 1889Pall Mall G. 13 Oct. 7/2 A trapdoor leading to a garner above [a carriage-house].
fig.1531Elyot Gov. i. xiv, A garnerde heaped with all maner sciences. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxviii. x, He unclos'd the garners of the skies, And bade the cloudes ambrosian manna rain. 1816Scott Old Mort. i, Yet you may be gathered into the garner of mortality before me, for the sickle of death cuts down the green as oft as the ripe. 1877E. Arber (title) An English Garner: Ingatherings from our History and Literature.
†b. A store-house for salt. (F. grenier à sel.)
1493Newminster Cartul. (Surtees) 195, iiij Salt pannes..wt all y⊇ apprtenance..ij garners wt all y⊇ grownde belongyng to ȝem. 1611Cotgr., Gerbier, a great Garner to keepe salt in.
c. attrib., as garner-house.
1815Scott Field of Waterloo 6 The pestilential fumes declare That Carnage has replenish'd there Her garner-house profound.
▪ II. garner, v.|ˈgɑːnə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To store (corn or other products of the earth) in a garner. Now chiefly rhetorical.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Nycholas 224 We dare nocht þis quhet sel..for.. to the emperoure garner mon we. 1474Househ. Ord. (1790) 32 Wheate is never garnered there. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vi. iii, The harvest is reaped and garnered; Yet still we have no bread. 1885Bible (R.V.) Isa. lxii. 9 They that have garnered [1611 gathered] it shall eat it. 1893Advance (Chicago) 10 Aug., The wheat was being rapidly garnered into large, upright, clay receptacles, holding 20 bushels each.
2. fig. To collect or deposit as in a garner, to make a store of. to garner up, garner away: to store or lay up, to put away.
1604Shakes. Oth. iv. ii. 57 But there where I haue garnerd vp my heart..to be discarded thence. 1845–6Trench Huls. Lect. Ser. ii. ii. 171 The difficulty with which the world has ever persuaded itself of the death of any..with whom it has garnered up its dearest hopes. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. i, Until the old man with the scythe reaps and garners them away. 1866Neale Sequences & Hymns 82 Where the dust of Saints is garnered.
3. intr. To accumulate, to be stored up. rare.
1850Tennyson In Mem. lxxxii, For this alone on Death I wreak The wrath that garners in my heart.
Hence ˈgarnered ppl. a., ˈgarnering vbl. n.
1842Longfellow Slave in Dismal Swamp vi, Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain. 1859Tennyson Vivien (Song), The..little pitted speck in garner'd fruit. 1872Morris Love is enough (1873) 27 But this is the harvest and the garnering season. 1876― Sigurd (1877) 2 His eve of the battle-reaping, and the garnering of his fame. 1892Athenæum 19 Nov. 697/1 The education of life is but the garnering of the pictures cast by the few fragments of an infinite universe. |