cannery

noun

can·​nery ˈka-nə-rē How to pronounce cannery (audio)
plural canneries
: a factory for the canning of foods

Examples of cannery in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The valley had large canneries where fruits were processed and canned daily. Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 My childhood home was less than a mile from these canneries. Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 The fish was from Kodiak Island, canned at the same cannery where Josh had grown up commercial fishing with his dad and where his dad had fished with his grandfather. Laurel Braitman, Bon Appétit, 9 Jan. 2024 The canneries have long been replaced with hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops. Julie Watson, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023 Glass fishing floats and authentic Japanese boxes for packing roe, salvaged from an Alaska cannery, also decorate the rooms. Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023 When Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas was a boy in the 1980s, his grandmother would walk him and his brother to the store for ice cream before heading to her night shift at a local cannery. David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023 Cold Storage is his fictional Southeast Alaska town made up of boardwalks, fishing boats and a cannery, a bar and cafe, and a cast of oddball characters. Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Jan. 2023 In 2011, the New York Times reported that Crow had done many favors for Thomas and his wife, notably financing the multimillion-dollar purchase and restoration of a cannery in Pin Point, Ga., that was a pet project of the justice. John Wagner, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1864, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of cannery was in 1864

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“Cannery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannery. Accessed 18 Mar. 2024.

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cannery

noun
can·​nery ˈkan-(ə-)rē How to pronounce cannery (audio)
plural canneries
: a factory for the canning of food

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