canner

From Middle English canner (“maker of cans”), originally from the noun canne and equivalent to can +‎ -er (occupational suffix). The modern senses reflect other meanings of the suffix -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænəɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

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.
   • 2007 May 27, Jon Mooallem, “The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration”, in New York Times, page 7:

     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.

   • 2009, Camilo Jose Vergara, 125th and Lex: The most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in New York City. A photo essay., Slate.com, December 3, 2009:

     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.

4. An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.

   Coordinate term: cutter

   • 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89:

     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 […]

• pressure canner

• IPA^(key): /ka.ne/

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canner

1. to cane, to furnish a chair with overlapping strips of cane, reed or rattan

   Synonyms: joncer, rempailler

2. (Quebec, informal) to can

   Synonym: mettre en conserve

3. (France, slang) to die

   Synonyms: mourir, clamser, clamecer, passer l’arme à gauche

• “canner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cannere, kannere

From canne +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanər(ə)/

canner

1. (rare) A manufacturer of cans.
2. (rare, Late Middle English) A machine that removes impurities from wine.

• English: canner

• “canner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-23.