Definitions for: 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
[v] beat with a cane



Webster (1913) Definition: 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 A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one the species of cane.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.


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.

Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste

See Also: beat, beat up, malacca, malacca, malacca cane, rattan, rattan cane, stalk, stem, sugar cane, sugarcane, swagger stick, switch, sword cane, sword stick, walking stick, work over

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