Definitions for caning

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caning can·ing

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IPA: /ˈkeɪ nɪŋ/

Caning is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in caning (acginn).

Definitions for caning

noun

1. the act of providing chairs or the like with seats made of woven cane.
2. woven cane for seats of chairs or the like.
3. a beating with a cane.
4. a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
5. a long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem, as that of bamboo, rattan, sugar cane, and certain palms.
6. a plant having such a stem.
7. split rattan woven or interlaced for chair seats, wickerwork, etc.
8. any of several tall bamboolike grasses, especially of the genus Arundinaria, as A. gigantea (cane reed, large cane, giant cane, or southern cane) and A. tecta (small cane or switch cane) of the southern U.S.
9. the stem of a raspberry or blackberry.
10. sugarcane.
11. a rod used for flogging.
12. a slender cylinder or rod, as of sealing wax or glass.

verb (used with object)

1. to flog with a cane.
2. to furnish or make with cane:

Origin of caning

First recorded in 1705-15; cane + -ing¹

Examples for caning

Perhaps that is one of the reasons why I did not offer to treat my cousin to a caning.

Seizing a rod he told Robert to hold out his hand, and gave him a caning.

In the English classes, the problems of caning and weaving are written and discussed.

The whole chair bottom was made out of one strip just like in caning.

The caning occurred in his father's office, after hours, one June night.

Walter clinched, but Kennedy threw him off and continued his caning.

Walter Riley had recovered by this time from Kennedy's caning and occupied a front seat among the spectators.

And he gave him a caning which he remembered to the last day of his life.

Their tasks were hurried over, imperfectly learnt at the best, if at all, and were generally concluded with a caning.

Never again have the pleasure of caning your honour in the character of Tom Errand.