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1. (n.) cane
a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
2. cane
a long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem, as that of bamboo, rattan, sugarcane, and certain palms.
3. cane
a plant having such a stem.
4. cane
split rattan woven or interlaced for chair seats, wickerwork, etc.
5. cane
any of several tall bamboolike grasses, esp. of the genus
Arundinaria.
6. cane
the stem of a raspberry or blackberry.
7. cane
a rod used for flogging.
8. (v.t.) cane
to flog with a cane.
9. cane
to furnish or make with cane:
to cane chairs.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < MF < L canna < Gk kánna < Semitic)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) cane
a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
2. (noun) cane
a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
3. (verb) cane
a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
4. (verb) cane, flog, lambaste, lambast
beat with a cane
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1. (noun) cane
a stick for helping sb walk
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| Definition of 'cane' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) cane
a name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans
2. (noun) cane
any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane
3. (noun) cane
stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry
4. (noun) cane
a walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane
5. (noun) cane
a lance or dart made of cane
6. (noun) cane
a local European measure of length. See Canna
7. (verb) cane
to beat with a cane
8. (verb) cane
to make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs
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Sense: the stem of certain types of plant (eg sugar plant, bamboo etc).
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 Afrikaans: riet |
 Arabic: قَصَبَه، خَيْزَران |
 Bulgarian: захарна тръстика |
 Brazilian: cana |
 Czech: třtina |
 German: das Rohr |
 Danish: rør |
 Greek: καλάμι, μίσχος |
 Spanish: caña |
 Estonian: roog |
 Farsi: نی؛ ساقه |
 Finnish: ruoko |
 French: canne |
 Hebrew: קָנֶה |
 Hindi: गन्ने, बांस इत्यादि का तन |
 Croatian: trstika |
 Hungarian: nád |
 Indonesian: tebu |
 Icelandic: reyr |
 Italian: canna |
 Japanese: 茎 |
 Korean: (사탕수수 등의) 줄기 |
 Lithuanian: stiebas, nendrė |
 Latvian: niedre |
 Malay: tebu |
 Dutch: riet, stengel |
 Norwegian: (sukker-/bambus)rør |
 Polish: trzcina |
 Persian: نی؛ ساقه |
 Pashto: كړكى دلاس لرګى: شكر ګنى: |
 Portuguese: cana. |
 Romanian: trestie |
 Russian: тростник |
 Slovak: trstina |
 Slovenian: trst |
 Serbian: trska |
 Swedish: rör |
 Thai: ลำต้น (อ้อย, ไผ่) |
 Turkish: kamış |
 Taiwanese: 莖 |
 Ukrainian: тростина |
 Urdu: گنے یا بانس کا تنا |
 Vietnamese: cây mía; cây tre |
 Chinese: 茎 |
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