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cannings

cannings is the plural of canning.

Meaning of canning

Noun

canning (countable and uncountable, plural cannings)

  1. The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
    • Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]1969, Herbert John Miller, Non-ferrous Metals Industry, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 25
  2. The practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.
    • Canners know when they hear the clink of a bottle going into a garbage bin.[…]
      CORNISH: Now, there's also this sense of loss in hearing people in the movie describe what they had been doing before canning became a way of life for them.2013 February 20, Audie Cornish, quoting Matthew O'Neill, “In ‘Redemption,’ Collecting Cans To Survive”, in NPR News

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Phrases with cannings

Questions about cannings

What is cannings the plural of?
Cannings is the plural of canning.

Words near cannings in the dictionary

  1. cannily
  2. canniness
  3. canning
  4. canning it
  5. Canning Town
  6. cannings
  7. Cannington
  8. canniniform
  9. cannista
  10. cannistas
  11. cannister

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cannings (page history and authors); canning (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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