CANNERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cannery mean? 

• CANNERY (noun)
  The noun CANNERY has 1 sense:

1. a factory where food is canned

  Familiarity information: CANNERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANNERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A factory where food is canned

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("cannery" is a kind of...):

factory; manufactory; manufacturing plant; mill (a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing)

Derivation:

can (preserve in a can or tin)

 Context examples 

She had worked in the cannery the preceding summer, and her slim, pretty hands were all scarred with the tomato-knives.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"When'd you chuck the cannery?" he asked.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had time to note the light, fluffy something that hid her queenly head, the tasteful lines of her wrapped figure, the gracefulness of her carriage and of the hand that caught up her skirts; and then she was gone and he was left staring at the two girls of the cannery, at their tawdry attempts at prettiness of dress, their tragic efforts to be clean and trim, the cheap cloth, the cheap ribbons, and the cheap rings on the fingers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)