canner

See also: Canner

English

Etymology

From Middle English canner (“maker of cans”), originally from the noun canne and equivalent to can +‎ -er (occupational suffix). The modern senses reflect other meanings of the suffix -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkænəɹ/

• Audio (AU, /ˈkænə/)

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• Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

Noun

canner (plural canners)

1. Someone or something which cans.
   • 1937, Technology Review, volume 40, page 100:

     One machine in which Mr. Taylor takes special pride is a salmon canner, which engulfs a whole salmon, decapitates and decaudates it, skins it, blows out its viscera, cuts it into pieces, deposits them in the can, sterilizes them […]

2. 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.
3. (US, slang) Someone who lives off container deposit refunds from recycling.
   • 2007 May 27, Jon Mooallem, “The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration”, in New York Times, page 7:

     Yet many canners told me that they can easily earn a daily wage of 20 or 30 dollars; each then recycles upward of 600 containers every day.

   • 2009, Camilo Jose Vergara, 125th and Lex: The most complicated, disturbing, and lively intersection in New York City. A photo essay., Slate.com, December 3, 2009:

     Among the crowds are ordinary working people shopping at the Pathmark, as well as down-and-out "canners" bringing their cans and bottles to the recycling station on East 124th Street.

4. An animal yielding inferior meat best suited to canning.

   Coordinate term: cutter

   • 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89:

     Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]

Derived terms

• pressure canner

French

Caning a chair

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ne/

• Audio

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Verb

canner

1. to cane, to furnish a chair with overlapping strips of cane, reed or rattan

   Synonyms: joncer, rempailler

2. (Quebec, informal) to can

   Synonym: mettre en conserve

3. (France, slang) to die

   Synonyms: mourir, clamser, clamecer, passer l’arme à gauche

Conjugation

Conjugation of canner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	canner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cannant /ka.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		canné /ka.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	canne /kan/	cannes /kan/	canne /kan/	cannons /ka.nɔ̃/	cannez /ka.ne/	cannent /kan/
	imperfect	cannais /ka.nɛ/	cannais /ka.nɛ/	cannait /ka.nɛ/	cannions /ka.njɔ̃/	canniez /ka.nje/	cannaient /ka.nɛ/
	past historic2	cannai /ka.ne/	cannas /ka.na/	canna /ka.na/	cannâmes /ka.nam/	cannâtes /ka.nat/	cannèrent /ka.nɛʁ/
	future	cannerai /kan.ʁe/	canneras /kan.ʁa/	cannera /kan.ʁa/	cannerons /kan.ʁɔ̃/	cannerez /kan.ʁe/	canneront /kan.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cannerais /kan.ʁɛ/	cannerais /kan.ʁɛ/	cannerait /kan.ʁɛ/	cannerions /ka.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	canneriez /ka.nə.ʁje/	canneraient /kan.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	canne /kan/	cannes /kan/	canne /kan/	cannions /ka.njɔ̃/	canniez /ka.nje/	cannent /kan/
	imperfect2	cannasse /ka.nas/	cannasses /ka.nas/	cannât /ka.na/	cannassions /ka.na.sjɔ̃/	cannassiez /ka.na.sje/	cannassent /ka.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	canne /kan/	—	cannons /ka.nɔ̃/	cannez /ka.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “canner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cannere, kannere

Etymology

From canne +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanər(ə)/

Noun

canner

1. (rare) A manufacturer of cans.
2. (rare, Late Middle English) A machine that removes impurities from wine.

Descendants

• English: canner

References

• “canner, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-23.