Usually means: Preserving food in sealed containers.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canning, canning: Merriam-Webster
  2. canning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. canning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Canning, canning: Wordnik
  6. canning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Canning, canning: Wiktionary
  8. canning: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. canning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. canning: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Canning, canning: Dictionary.com
  12. canning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Canning (disambiguation), Canning (food preservation method), Canning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Canning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. Canning: Rhymezone
  16. Canning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. canning: FreeDictionary.org
  18. Canning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Canning: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canning (food), canning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Canning: Medical dictionary

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  1. canning: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Canning)

noun:  The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
noun:  The practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A river in Alaska.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Hughes County, South Dakota, United States.
noun:  A civil parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.
noun:  A village in Kings County, Nova Scotia.
noun:  A town in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
noun:  A river in Western Australia, named after George Canning.
noun:  The City of Canning, a local government area in Perth, Western Australia.
noun:  A town in South 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India.

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