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.

	

	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