The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GARNER
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result GARNER
- Store of horticultural worker partially gutted
- Former king gets patriotic composer in for stock of poems
- Gather foreign station is accepting new recruits from the front
- Gather one working in bed perhaps lacks guts
- Collect from heartless horticulturalist
- Bring together African country on the radio?
- Composer entering Greek store
- Acquire husband
- Caretaker of plants chopped trunk to collect and store
- Assemble sailors in frightful rage
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The straight part
We know that "Gather" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case gather = garner.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does GARNER mean?
GARNER noun- A granary; a store of grain.
- An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something.
- To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
- To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
- To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
- To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.