| NOUN | artifact | cane | a stick that people can lean on to help them walk |
|---|---|---|---|
| plant | cane | a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar ... / sugar cane | |
| artifact | cane | a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment | |
| VERB | contact | cane, flog, lambaste, lambast | beat with a cane |
| Sounds | key'n | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abstain ... windowpane: 127 rhymes with eyn... | |
| Meaning | A stick that people can lean on to help them walk. | |
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| Narrower | malacca, malacca cane | A cane made from the stem of a rattan palm |
| swagger stick | A short cane or stick covered with leather and carried by army officers | |
| sword cane, sword stick | A cane concealing a sword or dagger | |
| Broader | walking stick | A stick carried in the hand for support in walking |
| Meaning | A strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar ... / sugar cane. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | malacca | stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles |
| rattan, rattan cane | The stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes | |
| sugarcane, sugar cane | juicy canes whose sap is a source of molasses and commercial sugar | |
| Broader | stalk, stem | A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ |
| Spanish | cálamo, caña | |
| Catalan | canya | |
| Meaning | A stiff switch used to hit students as punishment. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | switch | A flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment |
| Spanish | vara | |
| Verbs | cane | beat with a cane |
| Meaning | Beat with a cane. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | They want to cane the prisoners | |
| Synonyms | flog, lambaste, lambast | |
| Broader | beat, beat up, work over | Give a beating to |
| Spanish | fustigar | |
| Catalan | fustigar | |
| Nouns | cane | a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment |
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