Cane meaning

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A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes.

noun

The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants.

noun

Sugar cane.

noun

A stick used as an aid in walking or carried as an accessory.

noun

A rod used for flogging.

noun

A glass cylinder made of smaller, variously colored glass rods that have been fused together, used in glassmaking.

noun

A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.

noun

A plant having such a stem.

noun

Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.

noun

To make, supply, or repair with flexible woody material.

verb

To hit or beat with a rod.

verb

The slender, jointed, usually flexible stem of any of certain plants, as bamboo or rattan.

noun

Any plant with such a stem, as sugar cane or sorghum.

noun

The woody stem of a small fruiting or flowering plant, as the blackberry or rose.

noun

Any of a genus (Arundinaria) of tall grasses of the S U.S.

noun

A stick or rod used for flogging.

noun

A split rattan, used in weaving chair seats, wickerwork, etc.

noun

An aluminum or wooden rod with a curved handle, used for support in walking.

noun

To flog with a cane.

verb

To make or furnish (chairs, etc.) with cane.

verb

A stick used as an aid in walking or carried as an accessory.

noun

To do with a plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane.

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
(uncountable) Sugar cane.
(US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.

noun

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.
(uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
A lance or dart made of cane.

noun

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.

After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
(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.

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(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like.

noun

A local European measure of length; the canna.

noun

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

verb

(UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy.

verb

(UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.

verb

(UK, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.

Don't hit me with that. It really canes!

Mate, my legs cane!

verb

To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

To cane chairs.

verb

(linguistics) Abbreviation of Canadian English.

pronoun

Origin of cane

From Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Aramaic qanhā, qanyā, from Akkadian qanu 'tube, reed', from Sumerian gin 'reed'.

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