Garner
['gɑːnə] or ['ɡɑrnɚ]
['ɡɑrnɚ]
Definition
(n.) A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.
(v. t.) To gather for preservation; to store, as in a granary; to treasure.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Granary.
v. a. Gather (for preservation), store, hoard, deposit, save, husband, reserve, collect, garner up, treasure up, lay in, lay up, lay by, set by.
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Definition
n. a granary or place where grain is stored up: a store of anything—e.g. experience.—v.t. to store as in a garner.—v.i. (rare) to accumulate.—n. Gar′nerage a storehouse.
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Examples
- What other changes have come upon me, besides the changes in my growth and looks, and in the knowledge I have garnered all this while? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The cultivation and garnering of crops from such vast areas can only be appreciated by comparisons. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Me fawther has three Scotch garners with nine helpers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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