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Cane   /keɪn/   Listen
noun
Cane  n.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, 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." Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. Arundinaria tecta.
2.
A walking stick; a staff; so called because originally made of one of the species of cane. "Stir the fire with your master's cane."
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."
4.
A local European measure of length. See Canna.
Cane borer (Zool.), 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.



verb
Cane  v. t.  (past & past part. caned; pres. part. caning)  
1.
To beat with a cane.
2.
To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.






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"Cane" Quotes from Famous Books



... she. 'Wal, now,' says she, 'I like to see a parson with his silk stockin's and great gold-headed cane, a lollopin' on his carriage behind his fat, prancin' hosses, comin' to meetin' to preach to us poor folks not to want to be rich! How'd he like it to have forty-'leven children, and nothin' to put onto 'em or into ...
— Oldtown Fireside Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... wanted to speak with him about Ellen. Poppa wouldent say a word to him, and he kept following poppa up, to make him. Boyne says be wouldent take no for an ansir, and hung on and hungon, till poppa threatened to hitt him with his cane. Then he saw it was no use, and he took his hand and rubbed it in poppa's face, and Boyne believes he was trying to pull poppa's nose. Boyne acted like I would have done; he pounded Bittridge in the back; ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... had brought me, he first rid into the field among the dead to get some clothes suitable to the equipage of his horse, and having seized on a laced coat, a helmet, a sword, and an extraordinary good cane, was resolved to see what was become of the enemy; and following the track of the dragoons, which he could easily do by the bodies on the road, he fell in with a small party of twenty-five dragoons, under no command but a corporal, making to a village where some of the enemies' horse had ...
— Memoirs of a Cavalier • Daniel Defoe

... lay on the balcony of a country town hotel, with his nose just resting lightly on the Master's knee. The Master was still weak. He lay on a cane lounge, with one hand on Firm's shoulder. Beside him, in a basket chair, was the Mistress of the Kennels, and now and again her hand was passed caressingly over Finn's head. There was still a good deal of gauntness about the great Wolfhound; but he ...
— Finn The Wolfhound • A. J. Dawson

... in Hogarth's prints are not caricatures: the full dress with a sword and a great tye-wig, and the hat under the arm, and the doctors in consultation, each smelling to a gold-headed cane shaped like a parish-beadle's staff, are pictures of real life in his time, and myself have seen a young physician thus equipped walk the streets of London without attracting the eyes of passengers.' Hawkins's Johnson, ...
— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell


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