Meaning of rattan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
   countable, uncountable
3. The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
   uncountable
4. A cane made from this material.
   broadly, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields.”

“He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.”

““My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.””

“[…]the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline[…]”

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