cane

Plural: canes

Noun

• a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
• a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
• a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
• A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
• The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
• A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
• The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
• A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
• Sugar cane
• A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
• Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
• The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
• A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
• The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
• Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
• The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
• A lance or dart made of cane
• A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
• A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
• A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
• A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
• A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
• A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
• Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
• A local European measure of length; the canna.

Verb

Verb Forms: caned, caning, canes

• To beat or punish with a cane or rod.
• beat with a cane
• To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
• To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
• To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
• To do something well, in a competent fashion.
• To go very fast.
• To produce extreme pain.

Examples

• After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
• Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!
• Mate, my legs cane!
• Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
• The opponent’s unexpected bingo seemed to CANE my chances of winning this Words With Friends game.
• The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
• to cane chairs

Synonyms

flog, lambast, lambaste, a caning, blind man's cane, cane it, cuts, molasses cane, reed, rod, six of the best, staff, stalk, stem, switch, trunk, walking stick, whipping, white cane

Anagrams of cane