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gar⋅nett

[gahr-net]
–verb (used with object)
1. Textiles. to reduce (waste material) to its fibrous state for reuse in textile manufacturing.
–noun
2. a machine used in garnetting.

Origin:
1885–90; after the surname Garnett


gar⋅nett⋅er, noun

Gar⋅nett

[gahr-nit, gahr-net]
–noun
Constance Black, 1862–1946, English translator from Russian.
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Gar·nett   (gär'nĭt)   
British translator of Russian literature who introduced the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov to the English-speaking world.
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