Cane

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.
  • n. A plant having such a stem.
  • n. Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.
  • n. A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes.
  • n. The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants.
  • n. Sugar cane.
  • n. A stick used as an aid in walking or carried as an accessory.
  • n. A rod used for flogging.
  • v. To make, supply, or repair with flexible woody material.
  • v. To hit or beat with a rod.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the Grass family Gramineae.
  • n. The plant itself, including many species in the Grass family Gramineae; a reed.
  • n. sugar cane. (US, Southern) Sometimes applied to maize or rarely to sorghum when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
  • n. A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
  • n. A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
  • n. Corporal punishment by beating with a cane; the cane.
  • n. A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
  • n. A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by blind persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
  • v. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
  • v. To destroy.
  • v. To do something well, in a competent fashion.
  • v. It hurts.
  • v. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
  • n. Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
  • n. Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes.
  • n. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.
  • n. A lance or dart made of cane.
  • n. A local European measure of length. See Canna.
  • v. To beat with a cane.
  • v. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rather long and slender jointed woody stem, more or less rigid, hollow or pithy, as that of some palms, grasses, and other plants, such as the ratan, bamboo, and sugar-cane; also, the stem of raspberries or blackberries.
  • n. Sugar-cane: as, a plantation of cane; cane-sugar.
  • n. The plant Arundinaria macrosperma of the southern United States, forming cane-brakes. See Arundinaria.
  • n. The stem of a plant, as the bamboo, used as a walking-stick; hence, any walking-stick.
  • n. A lance or dart made of cane.
  • n. A chair having the seat, or the seat and back, made of thin strips of cane, retaining their natural smooth surface, interlaced or woven together.
  • To beat or flog with a cane or walking-stick.
  • To furnish or complete with cane; fill the center of the back or the seat with interwoven strips of cane: as, to cane chairs.
  • n. In Scotland, rent paid in kind, as in poultry, eggs, etc.; hence, any tax, tribute, or duty exacted.
  • n. An obsolete form of can.
  • n. An obsolete form of khan.
  • n. A slender stick or rod of some substance such as sealing-wax, sulphur, glass, or tobacco.
  • n. A slender panic-grass, Panicum dichotomum, a valuable native forage for sheep in the southern United States.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. beat with a 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
  • Verb Form
    caned    canes    caning   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    beat    work over    beat-up    switch   
    Variant
    canna   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    staff    cup    tin    glass    of    trunk    tree    a    stalk    stem   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bamboo    stick    vine    umbrella    reed    whip    leather    tobacco    knife    corn