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Garner

Erroll. 1921--77, US jazz pianist and composer
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garner

[′gär·nər]
(agriculture)
A building or section of a building in which grain is stored.
A bin for weighing grain.
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granary

A storehouse for grain, usually after it has been threshed, or for the storage of corn after it has been husked.
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References in classic literature ?
It is gathered in and garnered. It belongs to us no more.
They learned the ways of the fish and the shell-fish, and they invented hooks and lines, nets and fish-traps, and all the diverse cunning ways by which swimming meat can be garnered from the shifting, unstable sea.
In this way your corn-ears will bow to the ground with fullness if the Olympian himself gives a good result at the last, and you will sweep the cobwebs from your bins and you will be glad, I ween, as you take of your garnered substance.
"And in the South Seas garnered a better vocabulary from the lexicon of Love," Percival was quick on the uptake.
Mrs Dunster said the Garners had a "love-hate relationship", adding that when Garner drank alcohol he became "totally different".
She said she and Teresa were best mates, and that one time when there had been a fight at the Garners' home she saw blood on the wall near the fireplace.
COURT'S OPINION: The Supreme Court of Nevada affirmed the judgment of the lower court, which granted the Garners' motion to set aside the judgment entered into by Davidson without their knowledge, approval or consent.
Yesterday Ms Garner's friend and neighbour Sandra Dunster told Mold Crown Court that Garner, 51, had become agitated because Ms Garner - to whom he was not married - was back in contact with Stuart Jones.