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Garner   /gˈɑrnər/   Listen
Garner

noun
1.
A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed.  Synonym: granary.
verb
(past & past part. garnered; pres. part. garnering)
1.
Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions.  Synonym: earn.
2.
Store grain.
3.
Assemble or get together.  Synonyms: collect, gather, pull together.  "Pull your thoughts together"  Antonym: spread.






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"Garner" Quotes from Famous Books



... take your breeze, drink in your strengthening rain, And, while you can, make harvest of your grain; The land is fair to which that breeze shall blow. The flower is sweet the rain shall set aglow, The grain be rich within your garner gates— ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne

... Whence I draw nought, my sad self to beguile, But what my face shows—dark imaginings. He who for seed sows sorrow, tears, and sighs, (The dews that fall from heaven, though pure and clear, From different germs take divers qualities) Must needs reap grief and garner weeping eyes; And he who looks on beauty with sad cheer, Gains doubtful hope and ...
— Sonnets • Michael Angelo Buonarroti & Tommaso Campanella

... I said, when first along the lane With tiny nipples of the tender green The winter-blackened hedge grew bright again, This year I watch and listen; I have seen So many springs steal profitless away, This year I garner every sound and sweet. And you, young year, make not such haste to bring Hawthorn and rose; nor jumble, indiscreet, Treasure on treasure of the precious spring; But bring all softly forth upon the air, Unhasting to ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne

... need, the confiscated rice can be doled out to the improvident native, who thus contributes to the support of his family in times of scarcity. This regulation relieves want without pauperising, the common garner merely serving as a compulsory savings bank. Many salutary laws benefit the Malay, possessing a notable share of tropical slackness, and the lack of initiative partly due to a servile past under the sway of tyrannical native princes. The little brown people ...
— Through the Malay Archipelago • Emily Richings

... "How to be beautiful!" and "How to keep well!" He deserves his success. He is an emancipator and has doubtless done a great deal of good. His success demonstrates, beyond contradiction, the prevalence of the malady under discussion, and it must be remembered that he is only one of hundreds who garner ...
— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague


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