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noun 
  1. (uncountable) The slender, flexible stem of plants such as bamboo, reed, or the like.
  2. (uncountable) The plant itself.
  3. (uncountable) sugar cane.
  4. (countable) A short wooden or bamboo rod or stick used for corporal punishment.
  5. (the cane; uncountable) Corporal punishment consisting of a beating with a cane.
The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
  1. (countable) A strong short staff used for support during walking by the disabled or infirm.
After breaking his leg, he needed to use a cane to walk.
  1. (countable) A long collapsible (and usually white for improved visibility) wooden, metal or plastic rod used by blind people to feel for obstacle, obstacles in their path.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: blindenstok
  • French: canne
  • German: Spazierstock
  • Italian: bastone per ciechi
  • Spanish: bastón
verb (can, ing)
  1. (context, UK, slang) To strike or beat, notably with a cane or similar implement; to destroy.
  2. (context, UK, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: stokslagen geven
  • French: bí¢tonner
Etymology: From (term, cane, , lang=fro), from (term, canna), from Ancient Greek (term, , , tr=kanna, sc=polytonic, reed), perhaps from Semitic (compare Hebrew (term, , , tr=qaneh, reed)).


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