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Cane (noun)
A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof.
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Cane (noun)
The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
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Cane (noun)
The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
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Cane (noun)
Sugar cane.
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Cane (noun)
The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.
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Cane (noun)
Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
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Cane (noun)
A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
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Cane (noun)
Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
“The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.”
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Cane (noun)
A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane.
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Cane (noun)
A lance or dart made of cane.
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Cane (noun)
A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
“After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.”
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Cane (noun)
A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
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Cane (noun)
Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like.
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Cane (noun)
A local European measure of length; the canna.
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Cane (verb)
To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
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Cane (verb)
To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
“Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.”
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Cane (verb)
To do something well, in a competent fashion.
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Cane (verb)
To produce extreme pain.
“Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!”
“Mate, my legs cane!”
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Cane (verb)
To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
“to cane chairs”
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Cain (noun)
(in the Bible) the eldest son of Adam and Eve and murderer of his brother Abel.
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Cane (noun)
the hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan.
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Cane (noun)
any plant that produces canes.
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Cane (noun)
stems of bamboo, rattan, or wicker used as a material for making furniture or baskets
“a cane coffee table”
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Cane (noun)
short for sugar cane
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Cane (noun)
a flexible woody stem of the raspberry plant or any of its relatives
“raspberry canes”
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Cane (noun)
a length of cane or a slender stick, especially one used as a support for plants, a walking stick, or an instrument of punishment
“tie the shoot to a cane if vertical growth is required”
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Cane (noun)
a form of corporal punishment used in certain schools, involving beating with a cane
“wrong answers were rewarded by the cane”
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Cane (verb)
beat with a cane as a punishment
“Matthew was caned for bullying by the headmaster”
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Cane (verb)
defeat heavily or punish severely
“they have caned Essex and Durham in the Championship”
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Cane (verb)
take (drink or drugs) in large quantities
“the others were probably out caning it in some bar”