Definition of "garner"

garner

/ˈɡɑː.nə/

noun
plural garners
1. A granary; a store of grain.
  Quotations
  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, […], Psalms 144:13
  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, […], Matthew 3:12
2. An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
  Quotations
  Master, I bring from many wanderings,The gathered garner of my years to thee;One precious fruit of many rain-blown springsAnd sun-shod summers, ripened over-sea.
  a. 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Death Shall Not Part Ye More
verb
third-person singular simple present garners, present participle garnering, simple past and past participle garnered
1. To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
  Quotations
  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. To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
  Quotations
  […] I walked enormous distances […] garnering thoughts even from the heather.
  1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2
  He garnered the fruit of his studies in seven volumes.
  1913, “Anton Berlage” in Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913
  […] its fleet went out to garner in the elusive but highly succulent fish.
  1956, Andrew North, Plague Ship, Chapter 14
3. (often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
  Quotations
  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
  The AMPTP has disputed that description as a “mischaracterization” of their proposal meant to “garner support for its work stoppage.”
  2023 July 26, Adrian Horton, “Netflix lists AI job worth $900,000 amid twin Hollywood strikes”, in The Guardian‎
4. (rare) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
  Quotations
  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), pages 9–10
  For this alone on Death I wreak / The wrath that garners in my heart;
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto LXXXII

Definition of "garner"

garner

noun

Quotations

Quotations

verb

Quotations

Quotations

Quotations

Quotations