Meaning of Cane | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Abbreviation of Canadian English.
   abbreviation, alt-of
2. A surname
3. A surname.
4. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
   uncountable
5. The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
   uncountable
6. The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
   uncountable
7. Sugar cane.
   uncountable
8. Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
   Southern, US, countable, uncountable
9. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:
   countable
10. A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
    countable
11. Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
    countable, uncountable, with-definite-article
12. A lance or dart made of cane.
    countable, uncountable
13. A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:
    countable
14. A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
    countable
15. A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
    countable
16. A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
    countable
17. Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
    uncountable
18. A local European measure of length; the canna.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

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.”

“He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]”

“The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.”

“Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Finally, section (2.5) reviews diachronic language studies on CanE, which is the area of focus in the present study.”

“The present study focusses on the 'other' North American variety of English, Canadian English (CanE) from a diachronic perspective.”

“Laurel J. Brinton University of British Columbia, Canada The dearth of real-time studies of the histories of transatlantic English varieties can be attributed to the lack of readily accessible, electronic corpora. However, for Canadian English (CanE) we now have the Bank of Canadian English (BCE), which consists of c. 2.5 million words from written and spoken sources extending from 1505 to the present.”

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