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Canner

Canner

See also: canner

English

Proper noun

Canner

  1. A surname.

canner

canner

See also: Canner

English

Noun

canner (plural canners)

  1. Someone or something which cans.
    • 1937, Technology Review (volume 40, page 100)
      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 []
  2. 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.
  3. (US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.

Quotations

One who lives off container deposits

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2009
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French

Verb

canner

  1. (Quebec, informal) to can
  2. (France, slang) to die

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