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CANE, n.

1. In botany, this term is applied to several species of plants belonging to several species of plants belonging to different genera, such as Arundo, Calamus, Saccharum, &c. Among these is the bamboo of the East Indies, with a strong stem, which serves for pipes, poles, and walking sticks. The sugar cane, a native of Asia, Africa and America, furnishes the juice from which are made, sugar, melasses and spirit. [See Sugar Cane.]

2. A walking stick.

3. A long measure, in several countries of Europe; at Naples, the length is 7 feet 3 inches; in Thoulouse in France, 5 feet 8 inches; in Provence, &c., 6 feet 5 inches.

CANE, v.t. To beat with a cane or walking stick.

1913 Definition
Cane (cane)
n.(k1913 webster dictionaryn)
Cane
[OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q1913 webster dictionaryneh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.]
  1. A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
    (b)
  2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.

    Stir the fire with your master's cane.
    Swift.

  3. A lance or dart made of cane.
    [R.]

    Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign
    The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
    Dryden.

  4. A local European measure of length. See Canna.

    Cane borer (Zoö.), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. -- Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. -- Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

  5. To beat with a cane.
    Macaulay.
  6. To make or furnish with cane or rattan] as, to cane chairs.
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