Definition of Cane

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Definition of Cane

Cane

A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.

A lance or dart made of cane.

A local European measure of length. See Canna.

To beat with a cane.

To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

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Cane Quotations

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.
Charlie Chaplin

That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
Charlie Chaplin

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Miles Davis

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.
Annette Funicello

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.
Richard H. Davis

King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
Lloyd Alexander

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.
Wilhelm Ostwald

I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.
Kamisese Mara

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!
Dick Clark

Experience is the cane of the blind.
Jacques Roumain

Cane Translations

cane in Afrikaans is stok
cane in Dutch is staf, stok
cane in Finnish is keppi
cane in German is Spazierstock, Stock
cane in Italian is bastone
cane in Norwegian is stokk

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