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can·ner·y

 (kăn′ə-rē)
n. pl. can·ner·ies
A factory where fish, vegetables, or other foods are canned.

cannery

(ˈkænərɪ)
n, pl -neries
a place where foods are canned

can•ner•y

(ˈkæn ə ri)

n., pl. -ner•ies.
a factory where foodstuffs, as meat, fish, or fruit, are canned.
[1865–70, Amer.]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.cannery - a factory where food is cannedcannery - a factory where food is canned  
factory, manufactory, manufacturing plant, mill - a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
Translations
مَصْنَع تَعْليب
konzervárna
konservesfabrik
konzervgyár
niîursuîuverksmiîja
konzerváreň
konserve fabrikası

cannery

[ˈkænərɪ] N → fábrica f de conservas

cannery

n (US) → Konservenfabrik f

cannery

[ˈkænərɪ] n → conservificio

can2

(kӕn) noun
a metal container for liquids and many types of food. oil-can; beer-can; six cans of beer.
verb – past tense, past participle canned –
to put (especially food) into cans, usually to preserve it. a factory for canning raspberries.
canned adjective
put in cans. canned peas.
ˈcannery – plural ˈcanneries – noun
a factory where goods are canned.
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I was barely turned fifteen, and working long hours in a cannery.
And I knew that on the morrow I would not go back to my machine at the cannery.
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One of his first experiences was in the great Wilmax Cannery, where he was put on piece-work making small packing cases.
The ordinary labourers in the cannery got a dollar and a half per day.
And that night, coming out of the cannery, he was interviewed by his fellow workmen, who were very angry and incoherently slangy.
A little later, in another department of the Wilmax Cannery, lumping as a fruit-distributor among the women, he essayed to carry two boxes of fruit at a time, and was promptly reproached by the other fruit-lumpers.
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She had worked in the cannery the preceding summer, and her slim, pretty hands were all scarred with the tomato-knives.
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With one member trimming beef in a cannery, and another working in a sausage factory, the family had a first-hand knowledge of the great majority of Packingtown swindles.
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He worked as a night watchman, hawked potatoes on the street, pasted labels in a cannery warehouse, was utility man in a paper-box factory, and water-carrier for a street railway construction gang, and even joined the Dishwashers' Union just before it fell to pieces.
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And she was pleased, as well as angered, when she chanced to overhear two of the strapping young cannery girls.
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