Cane

[keɪn] or [ken]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment.

(noun.) a stick that people can lean on to help them walk.

(noun.) a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane.

(verb.) beat with a cane.

整理:泰丝--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

(n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

(n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

(n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

(n.) A lance or dart made of cane.

(n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna.

(v. t.) To beat with a cane.

(v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

手打:丽塔

解釋/意思:

n. the stem of one of the smaller palms—the calamus or rattan or the larger grasses—bamboo and sugar-cane: a walking-stick.—v.t. to beat with a cane.—ns. Cane′-brake a brake or thicket of canes; Cane′-chair a chair made of rattan; Cane′-mill a mill for bruising sugar-canes for the manufacture of sugar; Cane′-sū′gar sugar obtained from the sugar-cane; Cane′-trash refuse of sugar-cane used for fuel in boiling the juice; Cān′ing a thrashing with a cane.—adj. Cān′y made of cane.—Malacca cane a walking-cane made without removing the bark from the brown-mottled or clouded stem of the palm Calamus Scipionum brought from Singapore or Sumatra.

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