† graner Obs.
Forms: 5–7 graner, 6 grayn-, grainard, granier, grayner, 6–7 granar, (granard).
[ad. F. grenier; the forms have been variously influenced by grain and granary. Cf. garner.]
1. Some utensil belonging to a brewery; perh. a vessel for holding grain.
| 1413 E.E. Wills (1882) 22 Y be-quethe to..Ion, 1 graners, an a flot, an a planer. |
2. A granary, garner.
| 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. ix. (1537) 128 b, They lacked corne in their graynardes. 1538 Bale Enterlude John Bapt. in Harl. Misc. (1808) I. 110 He wyll brynge the wheate into hys barne or grayner. 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. iii. 12 He shal vtterly cleanse his floore, & ley vp the wheat in his granard. 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Comes horreorum, the ouerseer of the graner and bakehouse..in a princes house. 1579 Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 639/1 They haue..their graniers and their caues full. 1583 Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 109 Much lyk when pismers theire corner in granar ar hurding, Careful of a winter nipping, in barns they be piling. 1610 Healey tr. Vives on St. Aug. Citie of God xv. xxvi. 567 The graner or place where meate was kept for all the creatures [in the Ark]. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Garnar, Granar, corne chamber. 1628 Wither Brit. Rememb. iv. 1362 Our Granards filled, and our Gates made strong. |