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can
  1. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
  2. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  3. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  4. (archaic) A chamber pot, now (US, slang) a toilet.
  5. (US, slang) A place with a toilet: a lavatory.
  6. (US, slang) Buttocks.
  7. (slang) Jail or prison.
  8. (slang) Headphones.
  9. (obsolete) A drinking cup.
  10. (nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “All I could find in the pantry was a can of beans.”
      “I was busting to use the can.”
      “The scoundrels were arrested and thrown in the can.”
canner
  1. Someone or something which cans.
  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.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Seemingly insignificant scratches in glass may cause cracking and breakage while processing jars in a canner.”
      “When the timed process is completed, turn off the heat, remove the canner from heat if possible, and let the canner depressurize.”
      “To bolster their market strength today, producers must have the ability to do more than negotiate with the local canner or grocery store.”
cannery
  1. A factory that produces canned goods.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Jim had a summer job cleaning and packing salmon at the fish cannery.”
      “The cannery is the last on the island, once a world fishery center with 16 canneries that processed tuna, salmon, herring and other fish.”
      “Some found ready but low-paying employment as Pacific Coast migratory field hands and cannery workers.”
canful
  1. As much as a can will hold.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Here, four times a week we bought a canful of milk that had to do us two days.”
      “So she gave Uncle Wiggily a canful of fresh milk, for the rabbit had brought the milk can out with him.”
      “He drew a canful of water from the well, and had such a wash as no soap and a handkerchief would permit of.”
cans
canneries
  1. plural of cannery
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It's coming to the end, the factories and canneries slowly sink into the grit.”
      “Others were employed in the merchant marine, the United States Navy, and Alaska's salmon canneries.”
      “She worked for years in the berry fields of Oregon as well as in local canneries and frozen food processing plants.”
canfuls
  1. plural of canful
canners
  1. plural of canner
cansful
  1. plural of canful
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