Definitions for cane

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cane cane

Spelling: [keyn]

IPA: /keɪn/

Cane is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in cane (acen).

Definitions for cane

noun

1. a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
2. a long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem, as that of bamboo, rattan, sugar cane, and certain palms.
3. a plant having such a stem.
4. split rattan woven or interlaced for chair seats, wickerwork, etc.
5. 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.
6. the stem of a raspberry or blackberry.
7. sugarcane.
8. a rod used for flogging.
9. 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 cane

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French Latin canna Greek kánna Semitic; compare Akkadian qanū, Hebrew qāneh reed

Examples for cane

And you seized his cane in a fury, and broke it in returning the blow.

His friend has dropped hat and cane in shock but the drawing shows stuff that an Americana collector nowadays would kill for.

There are other details I might mention—that cane, for instance—but let it pass.

He drew the cane out of the sand, thrusting the stick down in its stead.

But the police nevertheless declared Stone to be “armed and dangerous,” despite getting around with a cane.

Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”

He pulls up his pants leg to show where a bullet hit him—the reason why he clutches a cane now.

He's grinning now and actually stretching his legs--his cane has fallen away as he speaks of the !

His cane alone would have told it long ago, if nothing else had.

Kirkwood poked his cane through the trap, repeating the address.