What is "cannery"

Usage examples of "cannery".

They were sorry, of course, for the failure of the local canneries around Kachemak Bay, exacerbated and accelerated by the urban renewal following the 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake.

There are fifty-seven apple-evaporating furnaces, to say nothing of the apple canneries and cider and vinegar factories.

The car sped past the shrimp canneries where the women workers stood at long platforms gossiping and laughing while they decapitated the shrimp.

I could draw any conclusion about who they might be, a door in the cannery slid open and a weak, yellow light silhouetted a dozen figures of various sizes and shapes.

And she was pleased, as well as angered, when she chanced to overhear two of the strapping young cannery girls.

She had seen Chester Johnson kill a scab, and now they were going to hang Chester Johnson, who had married Kittie Brady out of the cannery, and she and Kittie Brady had worked together years before in the paper box factory.

She worked at all the tasks she had ever done, performing, in fancy, the myriads of mechanical movements peculiar to each occupation--shaping and pasting in the paper box factory, ironing in the laundry, weaving in the jute mill, peeling fruit in the cannery and countless boxes of scalded tomatoes.

Down on the water front they found a fish cannery and an asparagus cannery in the height of the busy season, where they looked in vain among the toilers for familiar American faces.

Or they would float down onto the ocean and return to land with a catch which some cannery would be glad to buy.

Foyle and Robin arrived at the front office of the Aussie Cannery company town.

But it was just another cannery, paying not one penny more than any other cannery paid.

His cannery was appropriated, his only daughter, Elizabeth, taken to work in the offices of the Commission.

Our coach was one for convincing folks that athletics was educational because of the learning afforded by travel, and every trip we took he herded the team around to creameries and beet farms and canneries before the game.

You see, if the sub had an accident or was detected by the Harbor Patrol before it reached the cannery there was no way in hell it could be traced or connected to Minerva Lines.

The child would come back ecstatic about the harbor seals or the carousel at Cannery Row, as she and Cee Cee sat on Bertie's bed and they all ate dinner together.