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单词 granary
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granaryn.

/ˈɡranəri/
Forms: 1500s–1700s grainary, (1600s grainarie), 1700s–1800s grainery, 1500s–1600s granarie, 1500s– granary.
Etymology: < Latin grānārium, < grānum corn, grain n.1 Some of the obsolete forms were influenced by grain n.1
a. A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > granary
corn-housec1000
meal-houseOE
garnerc1175
grangec1384
girnel1452
graner1531
garnery1552
granary1570
grainel1608
corn-crib1716
golah1762
grain-elevator1852
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Iiv/1 A Granarie, granarium.
1623 T. Middleton Triumphs of Integrity sig. Bv Sir Simon Eyre..built Leaden Hall, a Granary for the Poore.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 56 The principal use of a Granary is against a very dear year.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 195 There should be an immediate Search made into all Grainaries, Farm-Houses, &c.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) III. lii. 247 The public granaries and arsenals were abundantly replenished.
1800 L. W. Wyatt Archit. Designs 19 Waggon and Implement Houses, with Grainaries over them.
1824 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. ix. 184 An old granary to which we mount by outside wooden steps.
1879 J. Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 415/2 The granaries should extend as two wings eastward and westward from it [the corn-barn].
b. transferred and figurative. Said chiefly of a country or region which produces an abundance of grain and from which supplies of corn are obtained.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > corn-land or -field
cornlanda1387
cornfield?1523
corn-ground1548
granary1570
milpa1648
kerning-ground1732
seeds1794
walk1797
corn belt1882
1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell Catech. (1853) 220 Fruits of godliness to be bestowed and laid up in the barn and granary of the kingdom of heaven.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 3 The Store-house, and Granary of the whole westerne world.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. i. sig. C Sicilie..when 'twas stil'd the granary of great Rome.
1665 R. Boyle Disc. ii. ii, in Occas. Refl. sig. C1v An Ant..onely carries away that [corn] which she finds ready form'd into its little Granary or Repository.
1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 189 Alenteio passes for the Granary of Portugal, by reason of the Corn which it produces.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 5 May your rich Soil..be th' exhaustless Granary of the World.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 162 This Island..was called the granary of Canada, which it furnished with great plenty of corn.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 126 The man voluntarily starves himself in the granary of plenty.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 6 Palestine was the granary of Tyre, supplying it with corn and oil.

Compounds

General attributive.
granary-crevice n.
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1839 T. Carlyle Chartism iii. 17 Stop up the granary-crevices.
granary floor n.
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1832 Ld. Tennyson New Year's Eve xii, in Poems (new ed.) 99 She'll find my gardentools upon the granary floor.
granary-keeper n.
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1886 W. A. Harris Techn. Dict. Fire Insurance 131 Granary-keepers' utensils cannot be insured in the same item as grain.
granary-man n.
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1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 116 In these publick Granaries, the Corn is kept..a whole year, for a Half-peny a Bushel; and the Granary-Man gets by it.
granary-register n.
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1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 132 Receiving a Ticket from the Granary-Register, of a certain quantity of Corn there lodged.
granary-rent n.
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1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 137 Fourteen thousand Quarters will come to 350l. for Granary-Rent yearly.

Derivatives

granary v. (transitive) to store in a granary.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [verb (transitive)] > gather into barn or granary
garner1474
barn1594
imbarn1610
granell1621
henta1641
granary1862
silage1885
1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 154 A remarkably light crop, half thorns and half aspen leaves, sown, reaped, and granaried by the ‘science’ of the modern political economist.

Draft additions December 2002

Originally and chiefly British. Also Granary. A proprietary name for: a type of brown bread flour containing malted wheat grains; bread made from this flour; brown or wholemeal bread containing whole or cracked (esp. malted) grains. Usually attributive, esp. in granary bread.
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1934 Trade Marks Jrnl. 26 Sept. 1255 (caption) Granary malt flakes.]
1935 Trade Marks Jrnl. 11 Dec. 1542 (caption) Granary bread.
1960 Baker & Confectioner 5 Feb. 207 (advt.) People have discovered in Granary a bread which caters for the modern taste... Granary is specially made from whole malted wheat and rye grain, flaked and blended with the finest stone ground wheatmeal and strong Canadian flours.
1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 9 July b1 The Cafe Torino [in London]..is advertising..‘Hot Buttered Granary Toast and Danish Pastries’.
1988 S. Shepherd Black Justice (BNC) 35 The kitchen bread-bin yielded three loaves of wrapped sliced white bread, and a single granary loaf.
1997 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 15 May 1 f I liked the hearty bread... Other varieties available include multi grain with flaxseed, chili pepper bread, white rye, granary, Parisian, and Great Plains bread.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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