Garner

ˈɡɑːrnər

verb

to gather or collect something, especially information or support

The word 'garner' comes from Old French 'gernier' which means 'to gather grain'. It evolved to mean gathering or collecting things in general.

The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The Return of the King

but some few days agone Her soft arms were entwining me, and on Her voice I hung like fruit among green leaves: Her lips were all my own, and—ah, ripe sheaves Of happiness! ye on the stubble droop, But never may be garner'd.

John Keats

Poetry

Roland had told them a few stories of his wandering years — the vampire nurses and little doctors of Eluria, the walking waters of East Downe, and, of course, the story of his doomed first love — and this was a little like falling into one of those tales. Or, perhaps, into one of the oat-operas ("adult Westerns," as they were called) on the still relatively new ABC-TV network: Sugarfoot, with Ty Hardin, Maverick, with James Garner, or — Odetta Holmes's personal favorite — Cheyenne, starring Clint Walker. (Odetta had once written a letter to ABC programming, suggesting they could simultaneously break new ground and open up a whole new audience if they did a series about a wandering Negro cowboy in the years after the Civil War.

Stephen King

Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, Book 6)

To-day and Thee The appointed winners in a long-stretch'd game; The course of Time and nations—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books, Garner'd for now and thee—To think of it!

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

I cried, "my life is full of pain, And who can garner fruit or golden grain From these waste fields which travail ceaselessly!"

Oscar Wilde

Poetry

For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

James Joyce

Ulysses

3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version

Hast thou dared to harbour such gross and shameless thoughts in thy muddled imagination? Begone from my presence, thou born monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, garner of knaveries, inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, enemy of the respect due to royal personages!

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote