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CANE
cane
(noun) a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
cane
(noun) a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
cane
(noun) a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
cane, flog, lambaste, lambast
(verb) beat with a cane
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes)
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
Synonyms: stem, stalk, trunk (of a tree)
(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
Synonym: reed
(uncountable) Sugar cane
Synonym: molasses cane
(US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
Synonyms: rod, switch
(uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
Synonyms: the cane, a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts
A lance or dart made of cane
a rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
Synonyms: staff, walking stick
(countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
Synonyms: blind man's cane, white cane
(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
A local European measure of length; the canna.
Verb
cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned)
to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
(British, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat
(British, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion
(UK, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain
(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
Anagrams
• -ance, Caen, Cena, Nace, acne, ance
Proper noun
CanE
(linguistics) Abbreviation of Canadian English.
Synonyms
• CE
• en-CE
Anagrams
• -ance, Caen, Cena, Nace, acne, ance
Proper noun
Cane (plural Canes)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Cane is the 11988th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2605 individuals. Cane is most common among White (71.67%) and Black/African American (18.73%) individuals.
Anagrams
• -ance, Caen, Cena, Nace, acne, ance
Source: Wiktionary
Cane, n. Etym: [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. qaneh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.]
1. (Bot.) (a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, 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 (Zoö.), 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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