canners

Noun

canner (plural canners)

1. Someone or something which cans.
   • 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 […]1937, Technology Review, volume 40, page 100
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.
   • 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.2007 May 27, Jon Mooallem, “The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration”, in New York Times, page 7
4. An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
   • 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 […]1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89

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