Canning

from The 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.

from 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

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