cane : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cane	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for cane
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cane n a stick that people can lean on to help them walk a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment v beat with a cane [syn: cane, flog, lambaste, lambast]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cane \Cane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caning}.] 1. To beat with a cane. --Macaulay. 2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cane \Cane\, n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. [?], [?]; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q[be]neh reed. Cf. {Canister}, {canon}, 1st {Cannon}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of {Calamus} and {D[91]manorops}, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. (b) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. (c) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. --B. Jonson. Note: In the Southern United States {great cane} is the {Arundinaria macrosperma}, and {small cane} is. {A. tecta}. 2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.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} (Zo[94].), 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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Cane a tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places. In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew word _kaneh_ is thus rendered, giving its name to the plant. It is rendered "reed" in 1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6; 35:7. In Ps. 68:30 the expression "company of spearmen" is in the margin and the Revised Version "beasts of the reeds," referring probably to the crocodile or the hippopotamus as a symbol of Egypt. In 2 Kings 18:21; Isa. 36:6; Ezek. 29:6, 7, the reference is to the weak, fragile nature of the reed. (See {CALAMUS}.)