canner
English
noun
Definitions
- Someone or something which cans.
- A large pot used for processing jars when preserving food, either in a boiling water bath or by capturing steam to elevate the pressure and temperature.
- (US) Someone who lives off -deposit container deposit refunds from recycling.
- An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English canner suffix from English can (cylindrical metallic container, from use to polish cans and other metal objects, more less cylindrical metal container).
Origin
English
can
Gloss
cylindrical metallic container, from use to polish cans and other metal objects, more less cylindrical metal container
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ashcan English
- can English
- can't English
- canakin English
- candock English
- canful English
- canhouse English
- canlike English
- cann't English
- cannery English
- cannot English
- dunny can English
- jerrycan English
- minican English
- oilcan English
- recan English
- shitcan English
- uncan English
- can Middle English
- canne Middle English
- canner Middle English
- 깡통 Korean
- kanön Volapük
- ken Tok Pisin