Cane

Definition: Cane

Cane

Noun

1. A stick that people can lean on to help them walk.

2. A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane.

3. A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment.

Verb

1. Beat with a cane.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Bible

Dream Interpretation

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

CANE

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cane

Arms

Club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver, shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

Scourge

Noun: scourge, rod, cane, stick; ratan, rattan; birch, birch rod; azote,

Crosswords: Cane

French (duck), Italian (brute, cock, cramp, dog, hammer, pooch), Latin (aged, be, be hoary, be white, become covered in white, celebrate, chant, clamp, crow, dog, dog-star, fish, foamy, foretell, frost, gray, hoary, hound, 'jackal', lowest dice throw, old, play, recite, sing, snow, sound, subordinate, white, white w, white-capped, wicker basket, wise).

With a cane. (Batman Beyond; writing credit: Hilary Bader; Stan Berkowitz)

I'd like a choo-choo train, a candy cane, an Inspector Gadget doll (Inspector Gadget; writing credit: Nezihe Araz)

I don't care a tinker's damn about this eclipse of the sun as such; the evening papers will cane it, it'll be dead by tomorrow morning (The Day the Earth Caught Fire; writing credit: Wolf Mankowitz; Val Guest)

Cane, cane sugar man Luda don't go (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Cinque figli di cane (1969)

Candy Cane Kid (1968)

Mondo cane 2 (1964)

Il Cane di pietra (1961)

Cane and Able (1961)

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References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Refined Sugars and Other Products of Refined Beet and Cane in Oceana (reference)

• The World Market for Raw, Solid Beet and Cane Sugars: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Raw, Solid Beet and Cane Sugars Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Raw, Solid Beet and Cane Sugars Export Supplies (reference)

• The World Market for Raw Beet and Cane Sugars: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Cane River (reference)

• Legend of the Candy Cane, The (reference)

• Natchitoches and Louisiana's Timeless Cane River (reference)

• Purple Cane Road (reference)

• Servants of the Cane (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Cane Toads - An Unnatural History (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Brother Cane (reference)

• Pure Cane Sugar (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• Hamper with Bag - Cane and Oak (reference)

• White Cane Hamper (reference)

• Candy Cane Christmas by Frank Ottomanelli (reference)

• Stanley Hardware 53-2501 Cane Bolts (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A shrimp boat anchored near the cane brakes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

View from delta splay along Southwest Pass towards islands composed of Phragmites, an exotic species commonly called roseau cane. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Cutting sugar cane in Louisianna. Credit: USDA.

A woman with a walking cane along the Quarry Cove tidepools. Credit: BLM.

An old man with a cane [walks] down the steps of the Mariposa Health Care Center. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Man with cane and hat talking to another man at fruit market. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bearded man in top hat waving cane. Credit: Library of Congress.

The first cane rush. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Sugar cane plantation, Oahu. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sugar estate - Negros cutting cane. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

In the bend of his elbow might be seen the leaden head of his enormous cane, which disappeared behind him.

A long thin cane would have a high whistling sound and he wondered what was that pain like

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Business

According to this trend, grain and sugar cane growers are shifting from traditional methods of production. (references)

At independence, the economy was almost entirely based on sugar cane, but at present, manufacturing contributes almost a quarter of its GDP, and over 50 percent of merchandise export value. (references)

The most commonly used types of agricultural machinery, implements and parts are medium-size tractors, hay bailers, grain drills, peanut diggers, ploughs, rakes, reaping vehicles, fodder machines, ditchers and cane harvesters. (references)

Children

Kenya

Men convicted of rape normally receive prison sentences of between 5 and 20 years, plus several strokes of the cane. (references)

Malaysia

The bill allows caning, but this punishment is limited to male children, who may receive a maximum of 10 strokes with a "light cane." Entry into force of the new law would repeal three other laws governing child prostitution, child abuse, and delinquency, including the Women and Girls Protection Act, the Juvenile Courts Act, and the Child Protection Act. (references)

Civil Liberties

Yugoslavia

In another complaint filed by alleged smuggler Stanko Subotic Cane, the court sentenced Asanin to a 5-month suspended sentence. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Colima farmers primarily grow lemon and sugar cane. (references)

Cuba (09/01)

Spanish settlers established sugar cane and tobacco as Cuba's primary products. (references)

Swaziland

The sugar industry, based solely on irrigated cane, is Swaziland's leading export earner and private-sector employer. (references)

Human Rights

Malaysia

The caning, which is carried out with a 1/2-inch-thick wooden cane, commonly causes welts, and it sometimes causes scarring. (references)

Nigeria

In January Bariya Ibrahim Magazu, a 17-year-old girl, was given 100 cane strokes following her September 2000 conviction for fornication and slander. (references)

Minorities

Dominican Republic

Perhaps 500,000 Haitian immigrants--or 7 percent of the country's population--live in shantytowns or sugar cane work camps, in harsh conditions with limited or no electricity, running water, or schooling. (references)

Political Economy

Saint Kitts and Nevis

The country has a population of 42,500. The mixed economy is based on sugar cane, tourism, and light industry. (references)

Dominican Republic

The 1999 transfer of sugar mills to private control contributed to increasing poverty and joblessness in the "bateyes" (sugar cane shantytowns). (references)

PHILIPPINES

Excise taxes on distilled spirits impose a lower tax on products made from materials that are indigenously available (e.g., coconut, palm, sugar cane). (references)

Trade

Bulgaria

Products subject to reduced duty quotas are beef, poultry, pork, milk and dairy products, some vegetables and vegetable seeds, barley, corn, rice, canned meat, crude sugar from sugar cane, confections, and some alcoholic beverages. (references)

Bangladesh

Quality control licenses issued by the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institute are required to export the following items: cane molasses, shrimp and prawns (except frozen de-veined or cooked), oil cake, wet batteries and dry battery cells, electric fans and other select electric appliances, biscuits, and PVC electric cables. (references)

Women

Brunei

In September 2000, two members of the Royal Brunei Armed Forces were sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment and three strokes of the cane for the attempted molestation and sodomy of a 20-year-old deaf girl. (references)

Worker Rights

Dominican Republic

Many cane cutters earn less than $4.00 (60 pesos) per day. (references)

Belize

Children work as shop assistants, gasoline attendants, and cane farmers. (references)

Dominican Republic

On sugar plantations, cane cutters usually are paid by the weight of cane cut rather than the hours worked. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "cane": bayou Cane ♦ candy cane ♦ cane apple ♦ cane blight ♦ Cane borer ♦ Cane brake ♦ cane chair ♦ cane cutter ♦ cane diagnosis ♦ cane liquor ♦ Cane mill ♦ cane reed ♦ cane sugar ♦ cane thicket ♦ cane toad ♦ Cane trash ♦ Dumb cane ♦ fruit cane ♦ giant cane ♦ Grand Cane ♦ great cane ♦ indian cane ♦ lawyer cane ♦ malacca cane ♦ noble cane ♦ raspberry cane ♦ rattan cane ♦ small cane ♦ sugar cane ♦ sugar cane plantation ♦ swagger cane ♦ sweet cane ♦ switch cane ♦ sword cane ♦ thin cane. Additional references.

Beginning with "cane": cane-backed, cane-brake, cane-cutting, cane-framed, cane-handled, cane-mill, cane-seated, cane-shredder, cane-spliced, cane-sugar, cane-supports.

Ending with "cane": bamboo-cane, built-cane, gentleman's-cane, oil-cane, Plant-cane, sugar-cane, walking-cane, willow-and-cane.

Afrikaans

stok (baton, stick). (various references)

Albanian

shkop (bat, baton, Billy, cudgel, pointer, pole, rod, roost, staff, stick, truncheon, walking stick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قصب السكر (sugar cane), ‏قصب (reed, reeds, rush), ‏عكاز (crutch, hilt), ‏عصا الأعمى, ‏عصا (leg, perch, pole, prop, staff, stave, stick, switch, tally, truncheon), ‏ضرب بعصا, ‏خيزران. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стъбло на бамбук, тръстиков (cany, reedy, rushy), тръстика (calamus, frail, rush), захарна тръстика (sugar cane), бастун (stick, walking stick), бия с пръчка (baste, drub, flay, flog, larrup, lather, swish, switch, whip), плета мебели. (various references)

Catalan

pal (baton, stick). (various references)

Chinese 

藤茎 (Canes), 藤 (rattan), 籐 (rattan), 甘蔗 , 手杖 . (various references)

Czech

třtina (Reed), rákos (bulrush, Reed, rush), hùlka (walking stick, wand). (various references)

Danish

cane fever (cane fever), sukkerroerplantage (sugar cane plantation), sukkerroer (sugar beet, sugar cane, sugarbeet), sukkerrørsplantage (sugar cane plantation), skud (bang, blast, clump shoots, filling, filling weft, flush, fruit cane, green shoot, pick, rod, shoot, shot, shute, sprout, tiller, weft, woof), rørsukker (cane sugar, saccharum, sugar-cane), bagasse (bagasse, Sugar cane bagasse). (various references)

Dutch

stok (baton, stick), staf (baton, staff, stick). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

jayac yacu (cane alcohol). (various references)

Esperanto

kano (reed), kana (cane-), bastono (baton, stick). (various references)

Faeroese

stavur (baton, stick). (various references)

Farsi 

نیشکر, نی (Junk, Sprit, Straw, Tube), چوب دستی , عصا (Bat, Rod, Stick, Wand), باچوب زدن , باعصازدن . (various references)

Finnish

keppi (baton, stick). (various references)

French

canne, roseau, bâton. (various references)

German

stock (baton, cue, floor, massif, pointer, pot plant, rock mass, roots, rosebush, staff, stick, stock, stocks, storey, story, vine), spazierstock (walking stick), rohr (barrel, blowpipe, channel, conduit, liner, oven, pipe, reed, reeds, tube, tubing, wicker). (various references)

Greek 

Pάβδος υάλου, κάλαμοσ, καρώτο υάλου, καλάμι (reed, shin), ραβδίζω (baste, drub), ραβδί (rod, stick), μπαστούνι (rattan, walking stick). (various references)

Hawaiian

shkop (baton, stick). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקל הליכה (walking stick), קנה (Reed, rod, stalk, stem, stick), אגמון (bulrush, rush), אבה, דוקרן. (various references)

Hungarian

sétabot (walking stick). (various references)

Indonesian

tongkat (goad, paddle, staff, stick, truncheon, wand), tebu, rotan (rattan), mencambuk (flagellate). (various references)

Italian

bastone (baton, club, perch, rod, stick, truncheon, walkingstick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

籐 (rattan), 杖 , 仗 (whipping rod), ケーソン病 (cable, cable car, caisson disease, capability, cape, care, care taker, careless mistake, case, catering service, caving, chaos, wellness care). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つえ (whipping rod), ケイン , じょう (10^28, aboard a ship or vehicle, as a matter of, besides, best, company officer, emotion, feelings, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, governmental, high class, imperial, jailer, lock, old man, padlock, passion, presenting, rank, shape, showing, superior quality, -tatami mats, ten octillion, ten thousand quadrillion, top, uselessness, whipping rod, young woman), とう (and the like, be frozen over, building, child, congeal, counter for large animals, engraving tool, et cetera, etc., foolishness, freeze, ground spider, knife, pagoda, party, place, rattan, saber, section, servant, sickle, steal, sugar, sword, T'ang-Dynasty, to accuse, to ask, to charge, to question, tower, without regard to). (various references)

Korean 

지팡이 (Canes, WAND). (various references)

Manx

cur yn clat da, cur thoyn chuitlee da, cuirtlagh (bamboo, reed). (various references)

Mohawk

atennits. (various references)

Norwegian

stokk (baton, stick). (various references)

Papiamen

takon (baton, stick), takòn (baton, stick), palu (baton, pole, post, stake, stanchion, stick, timber, tree, wood), kabana (reed), baston (baton, stick), bastòn (baton, stick). (various references)

Pig Latin

anecay.(various references)

Portuguese

bastão (bat, baton, billy, mace, mallet, rod, staff, wand), vara (baton, ell, fish rod, herd, pole, rod, staff, stalk, stick, switch, wand, wattle), cana (fishing rod, halm, haulm, reed, stalk), bengala (baton, bengal, stick). (various references)

Romanian

costrei (millet), trestie de zahãr (sugar cane), trestie de mare, stuf (Reed, rush), bate cu bãţul (fustigate), baston (bat, baton, cudgel, Mace, rod, staff, stave, stick, walking stick). (various references)

Russian 

сахарный тростник (sugar cane, sugarcane, sugar-cane), розга (birch, rod), трость (walking stick, walking-stick), тростник;трость, тростник (rush), камыш (bulrush, rush, sedge), вдалбливать урок, бить палкой (cudgel), палка (discipline, stick), плести из камыша, плетеный (braided, wattled, wicker). (various references)

Scottish

maide (a stick, baton, stick, timber, wood). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trska (bulrush, reed), plesti od trske, od trske, izbatinati štapom, štap (billy, crook, goad, prod, rod, stick, truncheon, verge). (various references)

Spanish

palo (baton, club, gallows, handle, javelin, pale, perch, pin, pole, shot, spar, staff, stick, suit, wicket, wood), junco (junk, reed, rush), bastón (backsword, baton, singlestick, staff, stick, walking stick). (various references)

Sranan

tiki (baton, stick). (various references)

Swedish

rör (barrel, channel, conduit, duct, pipe, piping, Reed, touch, tube, tubing, tubular skate, valve), prygla (belt, cudgel, drub, flog, larrup, lash, strap, welt), piska (batter, beat, curry, drive, drub, flagellate, flog, lash, patter, scourge, slash, whip), klå upp (bash, beat up, belabor, belabour, chaw up, clout, dress down, Lam, lambaste, lather, paste, paste up, strafe, wallop, whop), käpp (stick). (various references)

Thai

ต้นอ้อย (sugar cane). (various references)

Turkish

sopalamak (beat with a stick, birch, bludgeon, club, cudgel, curry, ferule), sopa (bashing, bat, baton, beating, birc-rod, bludgeon, caning, club, cosh, cudgel, drubbing, ferule, fescue, flogging, rod, shillelagh, stick, switch), kamış (bulrush, penis, Reed, rod, sedge, straw, wattles), hasırla kaplamak, değnek (cudgel, ferule, rod, staff, stick), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock about, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), bambu (bamboo). (various references)

Turkmen 

taяak (club, stick), зiсrik (reed). (various references)

Ukrainian

утовкмачувати урок, хан, цукрова тростина, ціпок (club, hock, waddy), комиш (bulrush, rush), кийок (bastinado, bat, baton, bludgeon, club, shillelagh), очерет (bulrush, rush), обплітати лозою, лоза (osier, skein, willow), ласиця, бити палицею (bamboo, club, fustigate), паличка, палиця (bat, club, staff, stick, walking stick, warder), плести з лози. (various references)

Vietnamese 

cây trúc, ba toong. (various references)

Welsh

corsen (reed, stalk, stem), cansen. (various references)

Yucatec

che' (baton, pole, post, stake, stanchion, stick, timber, tree, wood). (various references)

qanu. (various references)

baculum, baculum, baculus, calami, calamis, calamo, calamorum, calamos, calamum, calamus, canna, harundine, harundinem, harundineo, harundineum, harundineus, harundini, harundinis, harundo, hastile, hastili. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "cane": canebrake, canebrakes, caned, canella, canellas, canephor, canephors, caner, caners, canes, canescent, caneware, canewares. (additional references)

Words ending with "cane": arcane, chicane, decane, dumbcane, hurricane, recane, sugarcane. (additional references)

Words containing "cane": buccaneer, buccaneered, buccaneering, buccaneerish, buccaneers, calcanea, calcaneal, calcanei, calcaneum, calcaneus, carcanet, carcanets, chicaned, chicaner, chicaneries, chicaners, chicanery, chicanes, decanes, dumbcanes, hurricanes, recaned, recanes, sugarcanes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aane, acana, acane, acnne, caae, caan, Cadney, cadno, caen, cain, caine, caje, canaa, Canac, canae, canb, cance, cand, canec, canee, Canek, canel, canem, canen, canet, Cange, Canh, cani, canig, Canip, canit, cann, canne, cannen, canno, cano, canp, Canu, cany, carnbeg, caxe, ceen, cena, cence, cene, cenel, ceni, ceno, cenoe, chane, ciance, ciane, cien, cina, cince, cinel, cinex, cini, Cinna, cinni, cinqe, clane, Clanne, Cnae, cname, cne, Cnen, conje, conne, Cuna, cune, Cuneo, cuni, cunie, cuno, cyana, cyane, cyano, cyne, iane, icine, kanee, kanev, kanne, kanoe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: acne.

-1 letter: ace, ane, can, nae.

-2 letters: ae, an, en, na, ne.

+1 letter: acned, acnes, caned, caner, canes, canoe, clean, crane, dance, enact, hance, lance, nacre, nance, ocean, pecan, rance, scena.

+2 letters: accent, acetin, achene, acnode, acumen, aeonic, agency, ancone, anemic, anlace, apneic, arcane, ascend, ascent, axenic, beacon, cabmen, cadent, canape, cancel, cancer, candle, caners, cangue, canine, canker, canned, cannel, canner, cannie, canoed, canoes, canted, canter, cantle, careen, carmen, carnet, carney, carnie, carven, casein, casern, catena, cavern, cedarn, centai, cental, centas, centra, cetane, chaine, chance, change, cinema, cleans, cornea, craned, cranes, craven, cuneal, danced, dancer, dances, deacon, decane, decant, enacts, enatic, encage, encamp, encase, encash, encina, enface, enlace, fiance, glance, hances, iceman, incage, incase, inlace, jaunce, lacune, lanced, lancer, lances, lancet, launce, manche, menace, naches, nacred, nacres, nances, nectar, nuance, nuchae, oceans, octane, pecans, pechan, prance, rances, recane, recant, scenas, seance, secant, seneca, stance, tanrec, tenace, trance, uncage, uncake, uncase, unciae, unlace, usance.