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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cane \Cane\ (k[=a]n), n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne,
L. canna, fr. Gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of Semitic origin;
cf. Heb. q[=a]neh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st
Cannon.]
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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.
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Like light canes, that first rise big and brave.
--B. Jonson.
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Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the
Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is.
Arundinaria tecta.
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2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one of the species of cane.
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Stir the fire with your master's cane. --Swift.
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3. A lance or dart made of cane. [R.]
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Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign
The flying skirmish of the darted cane. --Dryden.
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4. A local European measure of length. See Canna.
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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.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Cane \Cane\ (k[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caned (k[=a]nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Caning.]
1. To beat with a cane. --Macaulay.
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2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane
chairs.
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WordNet Cane
n 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
v : beat with a cane [syn: flog, lambaste, lambast]

Moby Dictionary
Boston type , Braille , Malacca cane , New York point , Optacon ,
Pathsounder , Seeing Eye dog , Visotoner , advocate , aftergrass ,
alpenstock , anthrophore , arm , athletic supporter , axis , back ,
backbone , backing , bamboo , bandeau , baste , bastinado , baton ,
bearer , beat , belabor , belt , birch , bole , bra , brace , bracer ,
bracket , brassiere , buffet , buttress , carpophore , carrier , caudex ,
caulicle , caulis , cereal , cereal plant , cervix , club , corn , corset ,
cowhide , crook , crosier , cross , cross-staff , crutch , crutch-stick ,
cudgel , culm , cut , drub , embosser , farinaceous plant , ferule ,
flagellate , flail , flog , fog , footstalk , forage grass ,
foundation garment , fulcrum , funicule , funiculus , fustigate ,
girdle , give a whipping , give the stick , grain , graminaceous plant ,
grass , guide dog , guy , guywire , handstaff , haulm ,
high-speed embosser , horsewhip , jock , jockstrap , knout , lace , lash ,
lawn grass , lay on , leafstalk , line letter , lituus , mainstay ,
maintainer , mast , neck , noctograph , optophone , ornamental grass ,
paddle , pandybat , pastoral staff , paterissa , pedicel , peduncle ,
personal sonar , petiole , petiolule , petiolus , pistol-whip , pommel ,
prop , pummel , quarterstaff , rattan , rawhide , reed , reinforce ,
reinforcement , reinforcer , rest , resting place , rigging , rod ,
ruler , scourge , seedstalk , sensory aid , shillelagh , shoulder ,
shroud , sight-saver type , smite , spank , spear , spine , spire , sprit ,
staff , stalk , standing rigging , stave , stay , stem , stick ,
stiffener , stipe , stock , strap , straw , strengthener ,
string alphabet , stripe , support , supporter , sustainer ,
swagger stick , swanking stick , swinge , switch , talking book ,
thrash , thump , tigella , trounce , truncheon , trunk ,
ultrasonic spectacles , upholder , visagraph , walking stick , wallop ,
whale , whip , whop , writing frame , writing stamps

Cane a tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places. In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew word _kaneh_ is thus rendered, giving its name to the plant. It is rendered "reed" in 1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6; 35:7. In Ps. 68:30 the expression "company of spearmen" is in the margin and the Revised Version "beasts of the reeds," referring probably to the crocodile or the hippopotamus as a symbol of Egypt. In 2 Kings 18:21; Isa. 36:6; Ezek. 29:6, 7, the reference is to the weak, fragile nature of the reed. (See {CALAMUS}.)