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cannery

cannery

8 5.8
A factory where workers put food into cans to keep it for later
  • noun
  • /ˈkænəri/
: fábrica de conservas
  • Quinn's father had spent the summer he was nineteen working in Michigan at a cannery near Escanaba.
  • tuna cannery
  • oyster cannery
  • salmon cannery

He worked close by out here in San Pedro at a fish cannery marketplace.

Examples

  • The cannery produces thousands of cans of tuna every day.

  • We were famous for sardines, until the day the Baby Brent Sardine Cannery closed for good.

    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

  • I better get back to the cannery.

    The Birds (1963)

  • "I have to stop at the cannery and speak to my father, but I'll be home early."

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Well, we were talking about buying a salmon cannery, dad.

    Dad (1989)

  • The job choices come down to the tuna cannery or the army.

    Next Goal Wins (2023)

  • It means that our cannery will have to close.

    Edge of Darkness (1943)

  • My friend had told me about a cannery called Finned Foods, and I hoped to get a job there.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The first north coast salmon cannery was built on the Skeena River in 1876.

    Academic text (2007)

  • In the late 1880s, one of the earliest salmon canneries in British Columbia was established here.

    Academic text (2007)

Surface Forms

cannery singular
canneries plural

Morphology

cannery = can (transparent) = can + ery

Formed from 'can' + the place-of-business suffix '-ery', so the meaning 'place where canning occurs' is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word cannery comes from can, a word for a metal 'container', plus -ery, a part that means 'a place for'. So a cannery is a factory where food is put into cans and sealed.