Sekirov Dictionary

cane

/keɪn/

noun15

  1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof.
  2. A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
  3. A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
  4. 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.
  5. The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
  6. The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
  7. Sugar cane.
  8. (US) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
  9. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.
  10. A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
  11. A lance or dart made of cane.
  12. Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
  13. Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
  14. A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
  15. A local European measure of length; the canna.

verb6

  1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
  2. (UK, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
  3. To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
  4. (UK, slang) To go very fast.
  5. (UK, slang) To produce extreme pain.
  6. (UK, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
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