2. Noun. 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. ¹
3. Noun. (US slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canner
1. one that cans food [n -S]
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Literary usage of Canner
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1. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"... will be left in the record books for the present, but something concerning a
single combination is noted below. „ Second Generation of 'Trench canner- ..."
2. Successful Canning and Preserving by Ola Powell (1917)
"Home canner Manufacturing Company Hickory, North Carolina. ... Hot-water bath
canner. Northwestern Steel and Iron Works Eau Claire, Wisconsin. ..."
3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Written by Master Thomas canner a Gentleman of Bernards Inne his companion in
the same Voyage. ... canner ..."
4. Northern Germany, as Far as the Bavarian and Austrian Frontiers: As Far as by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1900)
"D, 4) from №:*»•/(canner-Str. ; PI. L,9) via Hasenheide, Hallesches Thor, Anhalt
and Potsdam Stations, and thence as in No. 40; every 6-8 min. ; green. ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Written by Master Thomas canner a Gentleman of Bernards Inne his companion in
the same Voyage. ... canner ..."
6. Women Under the Law of Massachusetts: Their Rights, Privileges, and Disabilities by Henry Harrison Sprague (1903)
"... make it his own.4 1 I Blackstone, 442, 445. 3 RL,ch. 153, § 1. » Pacific National
Bank v. Windram, 133 Mass. 175. * Ago v. canner, 167 Mass. 390. ..."
7. City Homes on Country Lanes: Philosophy and Practice of the Home-in-a-garden by William Ellsworth Smythe (1921)
"This type of canner produces a temperature up to 250° F. at 15 Ibs. pressure,
... Have water in the canner up to the false bottom, but not above it. ..."
8. A Treatise on Food Conservation and the Art of Canning by Dona MacKenzie Snyder (1917)
"The Steam Pressure canner The steam pressure canners are made especially for the
purpose ... The use of a steam pressure canner shortens the cooking period, ..."
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