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Cane   /keɪn/   Listen
noun
Cane  n.  
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, 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. "Like light canes, that first rise big and brave." Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. Arundinaria tecta.
2.
A walking stick; a staff; so called because originally made of one of the species of cane. "Stir the fire with your master's cane."
3.
A lance or dart made of cane. (R.) "Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane."
4.
A local European measure of length. See Canna.
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.



verb
Cane  v. t.  (past & past part. caned; pres. part. caning)  
1.
To beat with a cane.
2.
To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.






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"Cane" Quotes from Famous Books



... be able to actually describe the man who had made the tracks without ever having seen him, telling his height, whether thin or stout, even the color of his hair, what sort of shoes he wore, whether new or old, and that he walked with a limp, carried a cane, and many other interesting facts in connection with ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter

... alcohol lamp, and place over it a small dish containing water. Light the lamp and allow the water to boil. Place a cane-bottom chair over the lamp, and seat the patient on it. Wrap blankets or quilts around the chair and around the patient, closing it tightly about the neck. After free perspiration is produced the patient should be wrapped ...
— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... the eye by their overpowering whiteness. Close to the shore the fortress rears its strong turreted walls in a quadrangular form, planted with cannon, and bearing the striped national flag of the Sandwich Islands. The country above the town rises in an amphitheatre, planted with tarro-root, sugar-cane, and banana, and the view to landward is bounded by precipitous mountains invading the clouds, and thickly overgrown with fine trees. In this beautiful panorama we see at once that the island of Wahu deserves the appellation it has acquired,—of the ...
— A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 • Otto von Kotzebue

... produces fruit containing seeds. (11/71. Anderson 'Recreations in Agriculture' volume 5 page 152.) My father repeatedly tried this experiment, and always with the same result. I may here mention that maize and wheat sometimes produce new varieties from the stock or root, as does the sugar-cane. (11/72. For wheat see 'Improvement of the Cereals' by P. Shirreff 1873 page 47. For maize and sugar-cane Carriere ibid pages 40, 42. With respect to the sugar-cane Mr. J. Caldwell of Mauritius says ('Gardener's Chronicle' ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin

... smiled. He got up, put on his overcoat, took up his hat and cane, and went forth into the ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan


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