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Cane   /keɪn/   Listen
Cane

noun
1.
A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.
2.
A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane.
3.
A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment.
verb
(past & past part. caned; pres. part. caning)
1.
Beat with a cane.  Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste.



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... are also widely distributed substances, and include the cane, grape, malt, maple, and milk sugars. Here also belong the gums and cellulose found in fruit, cereals, and all vegetables which form the basis of the plant cells and fibers. Honey, molasses, and manna are ...
— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... stone bench that foots so much of the walls, had said: "Look at that curve." Nothing else. No ecstasies about the sculptures of Jean Goujon and Carpeaux, or about the marvellous harmony of the East facade! But a flick of the cane towards the half-hidden moulding! And George had felt with a thrill what an exquisite curve and what an original curve and what a modest curve that curve was. Suddenly and magically his eyes had been opened. Or ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... always a partition-wall on your right hand, and a round entrance at the further end of the hut to this part, partitioned off. This space, so divided off, is the sleeping-place, where there is a raised bench of mud, or a bedstead made of cane or wickers. A few utensils for culture, an axe and a hoe, may be mentioned, all made by native blacksmiths, of the rudest description. Iron is found in the native rocks of Soudan, and is not imported. The greatest skill of the African blacksmith is, alas! shown in forging the manacles ...
— Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 • James Richardson

... on the edge of the cot with the assistance of a cane that Jack cut for him three days before, he hobbled to the ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump

... sugar in Europe has averaged, during the last few years, three thousand four hundred and ten million pounds (3,410,000 pounds), and for the whole world it is set down at nearly twice that amount. It is estimated that three fourths of the sugar is made from cane, and ...
— Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 • Various


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