Plural of cannery; factories where food is preserved and sealed in cans for commercial production.
Plural form of 'cannery,' which derives from 'can' plus the suffix '-ery' (meaning a place where an activity happens), formed in the 19th century as industrial food preservation grew.
Canneries were massive employers in coastal towns for over a century—thousands of workers would seasonally descend on them to preserve fish and vegetables at incredible speeds!
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