garner
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9.9
A building where farmers keep grain after the harvest
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrnər/
- Archaic
:
granero
- After the harvest, the garner was filled with freshly threshed wheat.
Examples
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The farmer stored the grain in the garner for the winter.
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In his garner evermore.
Blog text (33) -
To protect the animal feed from moisture, it was placed in a secure garner.
Synonyms
granary
vsgarner
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5.3
A building where farmers keep grain after harvest
is an older word used mainly in past or poetic contexts
Surface Forms
Etymology
Garner originally meant a place to keep grain, much like a granary, because it comes from old words for 'to store' or 'to protect'. So a garner is a storehouse for grain or animal feed.