granary
(ˈgrænərɪ)
Forms: 6–8 grainary, (7 -ie), 8–9 grainery, 6–7 granarie, 6– granary.
[ad. L. grānārium, f. grān-um corn, grain n.1 Some of the obs. forms were influenced by grain n.]
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
| 1570 Levins Manip. 104/24 A Granarie, granarium. 1623 Middleton Tri. Integrity Wks. (Bullen) VII. 389 Sir Simon Eyre..built Leadenhall, a granary for the poor. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 56 The principal use of a Granary is against a very dear year. 1714 Fr. Bk. of Rates 195 There should be an immediate Search made into all Grainaries, Farm-Houses, &c. 1788 Gibbon Decl. & F. (1869) III. lii. 247 The public granaries and arsenals were abundantly replenished. 1800 L. W. Wyatt Archit. Designs 19 Waggon and Implement Houses, with Grainaries over them. 1824 Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. ix. 184 An old granary to which we mount by outside wooden steps. 1879 J. Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 415/2 The granaries should extend as two wings eastward and westward from it [the corn-barn]. |
b. transf. and
fig. Said chiefly of a country or region which produces an abundance of grain and from which supplies of corn are obtained.
| 1570 T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 220 Fruits of godliness to be bestowed and laid up in the barn and granary of the kingdom of heaven. 1605 Camden Rem. 3 The Store⁓house and Granary of the whole westerne world. 1632 Massinger Maid of Hon. i. i, Sicily..when 'twas styled the Granary of Great Rome. 1665 Boyle Occas. Refl. (1848) 17 An Ant..onely carries away that [corn] which she finds ready form'd into its little Granary or Repository. 1680 Morden Geog. Rect. (1685) 189 Alenteio passes for the Granary of Portugal, by reason of the Corn which it produces. 1728–46 Thomson Spring 76 May your rich soil..be th' exhaustless granary of a world! 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 162 This Island..was called the granary of Canada, which it furnished with great plenty of corn. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 97 The man voluntarily starves himself in the granary of plenty. 1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 6 Palestine was the granary of Tyre, supplying it with corn and oil. |
c. attrib., as
granary-crevice,
granary floor,
granary-keeper,
granary-man,
granary-register,
granary-rent.
| 1839 Carlyle Chartism iii. 120 Stop up the *granary-crevice. |
| 1833 Tennyson May Queen, New-Year's Eve 45 She'll find my garden-tools upon the *granary-floor. |
| 1886 Harris Techn. Dict. Fire Insur. 131 *Granary-keepers' utensils cannot be insured in the same item as grain. |
| 1677 A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 116 In these publick Granaries, the Corn is kept..a whole year, for a Half-peny a Bushel; and the *Granary-Man gets by it. |
| Ibid. 132 Receiving a Ticket from the *Granary-Register, of a certain quantity of Corn there lodged. |
| Ibid. 137 Fourteen thousand Quarters will come to 350l. for *Granary-Rent yearly. |
Hence
granary v. trans., to store in a granary.
| 1862 Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 154 A remarkably light crop, half thorns and half aspen leaves, sown, reaped, and granaried by the ‘science’ of the modern political economist. |
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orig. and chiefly
Brit. Also
Granary. A proprietary name for: a type of brown bread flour containing malted wheat grains; bread made from this flour; brown or wholemeal bread containing whole or cracked (
esp. malted) grains. Usu.
attrib.,
esp. in
granary bread.
| [1934 Trade Marks Jrnl. 26 Sept. 1255 (caption) Granary malt flakes.] 1935 Trade Marks Jrnl. 11 Dec. 1542 (caption) Granary bread. 1960 Baker & Confectioner 5 Feb. 207 (advt.) People have discovered in Granary a bread which caters for the modern taste... Granary is specially made from whole malted wheat and rye grain, flaked and blended with the finest stone ground wheatmeal and strong Canadian flours. 1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 9 July b1 The Cafe Torino [in London]..is advertising..‘Hot Buttered Granary Toast and Danish Pastries’. 1988 S. Shepherd Black Justice (BNC) 35 The kitchen bread-bin yielded three loaves of wrapped sliced white bread, and a single granary loaf. 1997 Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) (Nexis) 15 May 1 f, I liked the hearty bread... Other varieties available include multi grain with flaxseed, chili pepper bread, white rye, granary, Parisian, and Great Plains bread. |