Cane
[keɪn] or [ken]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Definition
(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(n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.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.
Checker: Rita
Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see cane growing in your dream, foretells favorable advancement will be made toward fortune. To see it cut, denotes absolute failure in all undertakings.
To dream of a rattan cane, foretells that you will depend largely upon the judgment of others, and you should cultivate independence in planning and executing your own affairs.
Checker: Valerie
Examples
- The gold-headed cane is farcical considered as an acknowledgment to me; but happily I am above mercenary considerations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Juries,' said Mr. Bumble, grasping his cane tightly, as was his wont when working into a passion: 'juries is ineddicated, vulgar, grovelling wretches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Some of the blows of my cane came home and roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person it saw. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And extending his cane he pointed to the awful object, his hand shaking as he did so. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He put the round head of his cane in his mouth, like a stopper, when he sat down. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But of course the wooden seat is wrong--it destroys the perfect lightness and unity in tension the cane gave. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These canes are terminated by tubes of pipe-clay, to prevent their being burnt, and other bamboo canes conduct the gas intended for lighting the streets, and into large apartments and kitchens. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And when we came at last to the five thousand cheeses (canes he made it that day, I remember), my mother burst out crying. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- So there was splendour and wealth, but no great happiness perchance, behind the tall caned portals of Gaunt House with its smoky coronets and ciphers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The dark mark of fate and doom was on the threshold--the tall old threshold surmounted by coronets and caned heraldry. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And do you remember when I got caned for crying about Mr. Mell? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They appeared to think that we had arrived for the express purpose of seeing Jacob Postlethwaite caned. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They want caning. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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