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cane

cane

29 7.7
A long thin stick used to punish someone at school
  • noun
  • /keɪn/
  • NSFW
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  • After the argument, he threatened to hit the table with his cane in frustration.

Examples

  • As for your manners, they deserve a cane.

  • The teacher used a cane to discipline the students who misbehaved.

  • Take your hands off me, or I'll strike you with my cane.

  • He would walk around with his cane and he would thrash the boys.

  • I'm making a formal complaint to the headmaster about Clarke's use of the cane.

  • In the past, children feared being punished with a cane for their poor behavior.

Synonyms

paddle
vscane
  • Archaic
14 7.9

A flat wooden board used to hit someone as punishment

is slender whiplike stick used for quick blows rather than a flat board
switch
vscane
  • NSFW
5 8.9

A thin flexible stick used to hit someone as punishment

is a stiffer long stick used to strike rather than a flexible branch
ferule
vscane
  • NSFW
9.9

A flat stick teachers use to hit students' hands or desks

is a long thin stick used to whip rather than a flat hitting tool

Compounds

22 1.0

A hard sweet stick with red and white stripes that tastes like mint and is used at Christmas

12 2.0

A tall tropical plant with thick sweet stalks used to make sugar

1 1.3

Sweetener made from the tall plant sugarcane used to sweeten food and drinks

1 9.4

A walking stick that hides a small sword inside

1 5.2

A long thin flexible stem from a climbing palm used to make furniture or baskets

cane blight
  • Specialized
7.7

A disease that kills the stems of berry bushes and reduces the harvest

7.5

Tall grass that grows in thick groups near rivers in the southern United States

cane toad invasion
  • Australian
7.6

A quick spread of cane toads into new areas that harms native animals and plants

8.6

A common houseplant with large green leaves that can make your mouth and throat swell if eaten

lawyer cane
  • Australian
9.9

A tall palm with sharp spines that grows in northeastern Queensland

malacca cane
  • Archaic
9.9

A walking stick made from the strong stem of a rattan palm

9.9

A tall tropical plant with long red flower spikes and purple leaves whose seeds are eaten as cereal

7.3

A tall grass that grows in thick groups in the southern United States

A sugar cane plant with large juicy stalks and a lot of sugar

switch cane
  • Specialized
9.9

A tall grass that grows in wet places in the southern United States

A ski pole made from strong Tonkin cane bamboo that is flexible and lasts a long time

5.8

A grass like reeds that grows in wet places like marshes, often in the southern United States

How Thick

pole
318 1.0
staff
105 4.5
cane
  • NSFW
29 7.7
switch
  • NSFW
5 8.9
twig
61 1.0

Surface Forms

cane singular
canes plural

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.