cannery
Americannoun
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canneries
plural
noun
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Origin of cannery
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She was raised by her mother, who at one point worked at a cannery.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
This year, he’s been sitting in on open mic nights at the Clausen Museum, where performers entertain in a room filled with old cannery gear and a taxidermied 126.5-pound king salmon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
After her parents’ divorce, Huerta’s grandfather helped raise her and her two brothers while her mother, Alicia Fernandez, waited tables during the day and pulled nighttime shifts at a cannery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Dock workers unload frozen skipjack and yellowfin tuna from a ship in Bangkok, bound for the Thai Union cannery, one of the world’s largest tuna processors.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 26, 2024
All their belongings had been looted by townspeople and the Nazis, and now the government had taken over his father’s fish cannery.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
The shipbuilding pretty much came to an end, and the commercial fishing trade of some thousand vessels that once kept canneries working in high gear has moved elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025
Gamage is as established an expert on such items as you’ll find around Rockland, a working-class town once known for its quarries and fish canneries.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
The canneries have long been replaced with hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
The plan was equally straightforward: Community-owned farms would feed everyone and fund additional industries, including apiaries, hatcheries, canneries, smithies, brickyards and even a film studio.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2023
The corrugated iron of the canneries glows with the pearly lucency of platinum or old pewter.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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