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Caning a chair
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
Noun
canner (plural canners)
- 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 […]
- 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, 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.
- 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
French
Pronunciation
Verb
canner
- to cane, to furnish a chair with overlapping strips of cane, reed or rattan
- Synonyms: joncer, rempailler
- (Quebec, informal) to can
- Synonym: mettre en conserve
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “canner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
canner
- (rare) A manufacturer of cans.
- (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.