Garland

1. n. A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
2. n. The crown of a king.
3. n. A wreath of chaplet made of branches, flowers, or feathers, and sometimes of precious stones, to be worn on the head like a crown; a coronal; a wreath.
4. n. The top; the thing most prized.
5. n. A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
6. n. A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provision in.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.