garnet

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ).nət/

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From Middle English gernet, granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”). Doublet of grenade.

garnet (countable and uncountable, plural garnets)

1. (mineralogy) A hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127:

     How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.

   • 2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 June 2012, page 128:

     Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)

2. A dark red color, like that of the gemstone.

   garnet:  

• grenade
• pomegranate

garnet

1. Of a dark red colour.

garnet (plural garnets)

1. (nautical) A tackle for hoisting cargo in or out of a vessel.^[1]
   • 1893, Charles Bushell, The Rigger's Guide and Seaman's Assistant:

     Using a garnet for the lower-deck guns on the lower deck: Lash the centre of the yard to the mast, and hook both burtons to support the yard.

• clew-garnet

garnet (third-person singular simple present garnets, present participle garneting, simple past and past participle garneted)

1. (transitive) To shred (twisted wool fiber, rags, etc.) so that it can be reused.

• garneter

• Tanger, Argent, Granet, Gretna, argent, gerant, Gernat

From English garnet, from Middle English granate, from Old French grenate, from grenat (“pomegranate red”).

• Hyphenation: gar‧net

garnet

1. (mineralogy) a hard transparent mineral that is often used as gemstones and abrasives
2. a dark red color, like that of the gemstone

garnet

1. of a dark red colour

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

garnet n

1. definite singular of garn

garnet

1. definite singular of garn

• regnat