About The Word Cane
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What's The Definition Of Cane?
[n] a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
[n] a stick that people can lean on to help them walk [n] a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane [v] beat with a cane Synonyms | Synonyms for Cane: flog | lambast | lambaste Related Terms | Find terms related to Cane: advocate | aftergrass | alpenstock | anthrophore | arm | athletic supporter | axis | back | backbone | backing | bamboo | bandeau | baste | bastinado | baton | bearer | beat | belabor | belt | birch | bole | Boston type | bra | brace | bracer | bracket | Braille | brassiere | buffet | buttress | carpophore | carrier | caudex | caulicle | caulis | cereal | cereal plant | cervix | club | corn | corset | cowhide | crook | crosier | cross | cross-staff | crutch | crutch-stick | cudgel | culm | cut | drub | embosser | farinaceous plant | ferule | flagellate | flail | flog | fog | footstalk | forage grass | foundation garment | fulcrum | funicule | funiculus | fustigate | girdle | give a whipping | give the stick | grain | graminaceous plant | grass | guide dog | guy | guywire | handstaff | haulm | high-speed embosser | horsewhip | jock | jockstrap | knout | lace | lash | lawn grass | lay on | leafstalk | line letter | lituus | mainstay | maintainer | Malacca cane | mast | neck | New York point | noctograph | Optacon | optophone | ornamental grass | paddle | pandybat | pastoral staff | paterissa | Pathsounder | pedicel | peduncle | personal sonar | petiole | petiolule | petiolus | pistol-whip | pommel | prop | pummel | quarterstaff | rattan | rawhide | reed | reinforce | reinforcement | reinforcer | rest | resting place | rigging | rod | ruler | scourge | seedstalk | Seeing Eye dog | sensory aid | shillelagh | shoulder | shroud | sight-saver type | smite | spank | spear | spine | spire | sprit | staff | stalk | standing rigging | stave | stay | stem | stick | stiffener | stipe | stock | strap | straw | strengthener | string alphabet | stripe | support | supporter | sustainer | swagger stick | swanking stick | swinge | switch | talking book | thrash | thump | tigella | trounce | truncheon | trunk | ultrasonic spectacles | upholder | visagraph | Visotoner | walking stick | wallop | whale | whip | whop | writing frame | writing stamps See Also | beat | beat up | malacca | malacca | malacca cane | rattan | rattan cane | stalk | stem | sugar cane | sugarcane | swagger stick | switch | sword cane | sword stick | walking stick | work over Cane In Webster's Dictionary \Cane\, n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna,
fr. Gr. ?, ?; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q[=a]neh
reed. Cf. {Canister}, {canon}, 1st {Cannon}.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of
{Calamus} and {D[ae]manorops}, having very long,
smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
(b) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and
bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
(c) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as,
the canes of a raspberry.
Like light canes, that first rise big and brave.
--B. Jonson.
Note: In the Southern United States {great cane} is the
{Arundinaria macrosperma}, and {small cane} is. {A.
tecta}.
2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one the species of cane.
Stir the fire with your master's cane. --Swift.
3. A lance or dart made of cane. [R.]
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The
flying skirmish of the darted cane. --Dryden.
4. A local European measure of length. See {Canna}.
{Cane borer} (Zo["o].), A beetle {(Oberea bimaculata)} which,
in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes
or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.
{Cane mill}, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the
manufacture of sugar.
{Cane trash}, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar
cane, used for fuel, etc.
\Cane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caning}.] 1. To beat with a cane. --Macaulay. 2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs. |
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