garner

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  1. transitive verb To gather and store in or as if in a granary.
  2. transitive verb To amass; acquire. See Synonyms at reap.
  3. noun A granary.
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  • My sermon that evening was upon wheat and chaff—the former was to be gathered into the garner, the latter burned with fire unquenchable. —  From Death into Life
  • Garnering Right Ideas "garner" - gather; a gathering of my thoughts which are usually right of center leave a comment » Written by garneringrightideas … —  The American Spectator
  • Spiritel are the standouts -- garner 'buy' ratings from the broker. —  Forbes.com: News
  • The best they could garner were a little over half a million votes!! —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • The best rating a suite could garner is a "very good," which indicated that the software had a 98\% or greater success rate at proactive detection. —  HotHardware.com News Rss Feed
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  1. Middle English, from garner, gerner, granary, from Old French gernier, grenier, from Latin grānārium; see granary.

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  1. from Middle English garner, gerner, rarely greynere, from Old French grenier, transposed gernier, French grenier, dial. guernier = Provencal granier = Spanish granero = Portuguese granel = Italian granajo, granaro, from Latin granarium, usually in plural granaria, a granary: see granary, and cf. garnery, girnel, etc. Cf. garnet, similarly transposed, and of the same ult. origin.
  2. from garner, n.
 

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