Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A factory where fish, vegetables, or other foods are canned.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An establishment for canning or preserving meat, fish, or fruit in cans or tins hermetically sealed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun United States A place where the business of canning fruit, meat, etc., is carried on.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
factory that produces canned goods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a factory where food is canned
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Examples
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Now between the two of them during the summer, the building next to the gym was known as a cannery, so people would bring in their farm and garden things and they would help to can and what-have-you.
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The cannery was a white elephant, without takers in the market.
Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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In Central Maui, the cannery was a hive of activity for processing canned pineapple and pineapple juice.
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In Central Maui, the cannery was a hive of activity for processing canned pineapple and pineapple juice.
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A seasonal business such as cannery may require employees all year but pay substantial overtime in September and October.
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The ordinary laborers in the cannery got a dollar and a half per day.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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And she was pleased, as well as angered, when she chanced to overhear two of the strapping young cannery girls.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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And that night, coming out of the cannery, he was interviewed by his fellow workmen, who were very angry and incoherently slangy.
SOUTH OF THE SLOT 2010
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Years before, at the cannery, I had earned a dollar a day for a ten-hour day.
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I was working a twelve-to thirteen-hour day, and I wasn't being paid overtime as in the cannery.
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