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Verb: garner  gaa(r)-nu(r)
  1. Acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
    "its beauty garnered Paris the name 'City of Lights'";
    - earn, win
     
  2. Assemble or get together
    "The committee garnered support for the new proposal";
    - gather, collect, pull together
     
  3. [archaic] Store grain
    "The farmers garnered the wheat harvest in large silos"
Noun: garner  gaa(r)-nu(r)
Usage: archaic
  1. A storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed
    "The farmer stored the harvest in the garner for the winter";
    - granary

Derived forms: garners, garnering, garnered

Type of: acquire, depot, entrepot, get, group, storage, store, storehouse

Encyclopedia: Garner, Michael