cane

noun

1. (uncountable)A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
2. (uncountable)A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
3. (uncountable)A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:

   “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.”

4. (Southern, US, countable, uncountable)A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof:
5. (countable)The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:

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

6. (countable, uncountable, with-definite-article)The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:

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

7. (countable, uncountable)The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool:

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

8. (countable)A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:

   “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.”

9. (countable)A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:
10. (countable)A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant:
11. (uncountable)Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.

    “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.”

12. (countable, uncountable)A local European measure of length; the canna.

verb

1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
2. (transitive)To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

   “to cane chairs”

   “In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats.”

3. (New-Zealand, UK, slang)To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.

   “Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.”

4. (New-Zealand, UK, slang)To do something well, in a competent fashion.
5. (UK, slang)To go very fast.
6. (Australia, UK, intransitive, slang)To produce extreme pain.

   “Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!”

   “Mate, my legs cane!”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Canadian English.

   “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.”

2. A surname.