Cane : (noun)
1: a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
2: a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds,
rattans, or sugar cane
3: a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
(verb)
1: beat with a cane [syn: flog, lambaste, lambast]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Cane : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cane : \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 A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one the species of cane.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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Cane : a tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places.
In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew word _kaneh_ is thus
rendered, giving its name to the plant. It is rendered "reed" in
1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6; 35:7. In Ps. 68:30 the
expression "company of spearmen" is in the margin and the
Revised Version "beasts of the reeds," referring probably to the
crocodile or the hippopotamus as a symbol of Egypt. In 2 Kings
18:21; Isa. 36:6; Ezek. 29:6, 7, the reference is to the weak,
fragile nature of the reed. (See CALAMUS.)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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