a person or organization whose job is to can foods
canner in American English
(ˈkænər)
US
noun
a person who cans food
canner in American English
(ˈkænər)
noun
1.
a person who cans meat, fruit, etc., for preservation
2.
an animal yielding meat of poor quality, suitable only for canning
Word origin
[1865–70, Amer.; can2 + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: batting average, goulash, steamroller, tick-tack-toe, valence-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)