cane
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor.
Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor.
Latin canna
Old French canebor.
Middle English cane
English cane
From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
Inflected forms:
form: canes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
gloss: A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
pos: noun
tags: Southern
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]
gloss: The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
with-definite-article
examples: The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
gloss: The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
gloss: A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.
She was given mobility training as well — she uses a white cane to make her way independently to the hospital and asks for help to navigate traffic-ridden roads if she needs it. The effort is worth it.
gloss: A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
gloss: A local European measure of length; the canna.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
pos: verb
gloss: To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to cane chairs
In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats.
gloss: To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.
gloss: To do something well, in a competent fashion.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
UK
slang
gloss: To go very fast.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
gloss: To produce extreme pain.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
UK
intransitive
slang
examples: Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!
Mate, my legs cane!
Derived words: bamboo cane
blind man's cane
candy cane
cane apple
cane ash
caneball
cane beardgrass
cane beetle
cane bluestem
caneboard
cane borer
canebrake
cane brake
cane carter
cane cutter
canecutter
cane field
canefield
canefruit
cane fu
cane gall
canegrass
cane grass
canegrub
cane grub
cane juice
cane killer
cane knife
caneland
caneless
canelike
cane-like
caneology
cane piece
caner
cane rat
cane rust
cane sugar
cane syrup
cane toad
cane train
caneware
canework
caneworking
canite
cany
dumbcane
dumb cane
floricane
giant cane
great cane
hill cane
large cane
lawyer cane
macaroni cane
maiden cane
Malacca cane
plant-cane
primocane
probing cane
rattan cane
recane
ribbon cane
rivercane
river cane
Santa's cane
small cane
snake cane
sugar-cane
sugar cane
sweet cane
switch cane
sword cane
walking cane
white cane
Translations:
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vāisǖāi