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Canner vs Cannel - What's the difference?

canner | cannel |

As a proper noun canner

is .

As a noun cannel is

a bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.

canner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something which cans.
  • 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 refunds from recycling.

    • Quotations

    One who lives off container deposits * 2007 , Jon Mooallem, The Unintended Consequences of Hyperhydration], (New York Times), May 27, 2007, [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/magazine/27Bottle-t.html?pagewanted=7 p. 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. , , 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. ----

    cannel

    English

    (Cannel coal)

    Noun

    (head)
  • A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
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  • *:Gerald was enthusiastic. After a while they shook hands, it being time to separate. And for a long time Selwyn sat there alone in the visitors’ room, absent-eyed, facing the blazing fire of cannel coal.