ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Canner

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈkænəɹ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Canner is a noun meaning Someone or something which cans.

Meaning

Someone or something which cans.

More Meanings

  1. (US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
  2. An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
  3. A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.

Example Sentences

Yet many canners told me that they can easily earn a daily wage of 20 or 30 dollars; each then recycles upward of 600 containers every day.
Among the crowds are ordinary working people shopping at the Pathmark, as well as down-and-out "canners" bringing their cans and bottles to the recycling station on East 124th Street.
Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]
One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […]

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Related dictionary entries include catcher, canneryman, cannoneer, cannoner, cannulator, cannonier.

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