Definition of "cane" []

• A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans. (noun)
• A plant having such a stem. (noun)
• Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets. (noun)
• A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes. (noun)
• The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants. (noun)

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• "Morefield Storey, one of Sumner’s biographers, says Brooks’s cane was “a heavy gutta-percha cane” and that the blows were continued “until the cane broke."
• ""_Not with the cane, not with the cane_, Mackworth," cried several voices in agitation, but not in time to prevent the cane descending with heavy hand across the child's back."
• "The green seas of sugar cane give way to scared charred fields when the cane is cut, looking like dead alien landscapes."