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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. 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.

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

transitive verb. To hit or beat with a rod.

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.

noun. In Scotland, rent paid in kind, as in poultry, eggs, etc.; hence, any tax, tribute, or duty exacted.

noun. An obsolete form of khan.

noun. An obsolete form of can.

noun. A slender stick or rod of some substance such as sealing-wax, sulphur, glass, or tobacco.

noun. A slender panic-grass, Panicum dichotomum, a valuable native forage for sheep in the southern United States.

noun. 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.

noun. Sugar-cane: as, a plantation of cane; cane-sugar.

noun. The plant Arundinaria macrosperma of the southern United States, forming cane-brakes. See Arundinaria.

noun. The stem of a plant, as the bamboo, used as a walking-stick; hence, any walking-stick.

noun. A lance or dart made of cane.

noun. 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.

transitive verb. To beat with a cane.

transitive verb. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

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noun. A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

noun. Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

noun. Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes.

noun. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.

noun. A lance or dart made of cane.

noun. A local European measure of length. See Canna.

noun. A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.

noun. a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar.

noun. the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

noun. The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the Grass family Gramineae.

noun. The plant itself, including many species in the Grass family Gramineae; a reed.

noun. sugar cane. (US, Southern) Sometimes applied to maize or rarely to sorghum when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.

noun. A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.

noun. A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.

noun. Corporal punishment by beating with a cane; the cane.

noun. A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.

noun. 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.

verb. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

verb. To destroy.

verb. To do something well, in a competent fashion.

verb. It hurts.

verb. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

"Morefield Storey, one of Sumner’s biographers, says Brooks’s cane was “a heavy gutta-percha cane” and that the blows were continued “until the cane broke."