cane
- noun
- /keɪn/
- NSFW
- After the argument, he threatened to hit the table with his cane in frustration.
Examples
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As for your manners, they deserve a cane.
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The teacher used a cane to discipline the students who misbehaved.
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Take your hands off me, or I'll strike you with my cane.
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He would walk around with his cane and he would thrash the boys.
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I'm making a formal complaint to the headmaster about Clarke's use of the cane.
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In the past, children feared being punished with a cane for their poor behavior.
Synonyms
A flat wooden board used to hit someone as punishment
A thin flexible stick used to hit someone as punishment
A flat stick teachers use to hit students' hands or desks
Compounds
A hard sweet stick with red and white stripes that tastes like mint and is used at Christmas
- Australian
A quick spread of cane toads into new areas that harms native animals and plants
A common houseplant with large green leaves that can make your mouth and throat swell if eaten
- Archaic
A tall tropical plant with long red flower spikes and purple leaves whose seeds are eaten as cereal
A ski pole made from strong Tonkin cane bamboo that is flexible and lasts a long time
- US
A grass like reeds that grows in wet places like marshes, often in the southern United States
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Etymology
Cane comes from Latin canna, 'reed', because thin plant stems were once used as switches. So a cane came to mean a long, thin stick used for punishment.