< Old French gerner, gernier, grenier storehouse, garret < Latin grānārium (usually grānāria pl), granary n. < grānum grain. Now less common than granary, except in rhetorical language. See also garnel n.1, garnery n., girnel n.
a. A storehouse for corn, granary. (OED)
"This old scholar, for instance, should have struggled to speak,
should not remember his words, paragraphs, books:
that garner of full-ripened grain must be hosed clean."
- C. K. Williams, "Rat Wheel, Dementia, Mont Saint Michel", 4 April 2011 The New Yorker
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