dole vs garner

dole

noun
  • Distribution; dealing; apportionment. 

  • Money or other goods given as charity. 

  • A boundary; a landmark. 

  • Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits. 

  • Dolus. 

  • A void space left in tillage. 

verb
  • To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. 

garner

noun
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. 

  • A granary; a store of grain. 

verb
  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. 

  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. 

  • To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. 

  • To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact 

How often have the words dole and garner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )