CANE
\kˈe͡ɪn], \kˈeɪn], \k_ˈeɪ_n]\
Definitions of CANE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
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a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
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a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
By Princeton University
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a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
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a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
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a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
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Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
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Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
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A lance or dart made of cane.
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A local European measure of length. See Canna.
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To beat with a cane.
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A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
By Oddity Software
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A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
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Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
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Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
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A lance or dart made of cane.
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A local European measure of length. See Canna.
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To beat with a cane.
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A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
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To beat with a cane.
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To bottom or back with cane, as a chair.
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A slender flexible woody stem or plant, as a rattan or the sugar - cane.
By James Champlin Fernald
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The stem of certain palms, grasses, and other plants, as the bamboo, sugar cane, rattan, etc.; a walking stick.
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To beat with a walking stick; furnish with parts made of grasses, rattan, bamboo, etc.; as, to cane chairs.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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