canning

2 definitions found

canning - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Can \Can\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canned; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Canning.]
     To preserve by putting in sealed cans [U. S.] "Canned meats"
     --W. D. Howells.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Canned goods, a general name for fruit, vegetables, meat,
        or fish, preserved in hermetically sealed cans.

canning - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "canning":
     anhydration, blast-freezing, bottling, boxing, brining, corning,
     crating, curing, dehydration, desiccation, dry-curing, drying,
     embalming, encasement, evaporation, freeze-drying, freezing,
     fuming, irradiation, jerking, marination, mummification, package,
     packaging, packing, pickling, potting, quick-freezing,
     refrigeration, salting, seasoning, smoking, stuffing, taxidermy,
     tinning