[keyn] 
noun, verb, caned, can⋅ing.| 1. | a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick. |
| 2. | a long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem, as that of bamboo, rattan, sugar cane, and certain palms. |
| 3. | a plant having such a stem. |
| 4. | split rattan woven or interlaced for chair seats, wickerwork, etc. |
| 5. | any of several tall bamboolike grasses, esp. of the genus Arundinaria, as A. gigantea (cane reed, large cane, giant cane, or southern cane) and A. tecta (small cane or switch cane), of the southern U.S. |
| 6. | the stem of a raspberry or blackberry. |
| 7. | sugar cane. |
| 8. | a rod used for flogging. |
| 9. | a slender cylinder or rod, as of sealing wax or glass. |
| 10. | to flog with a cane. |
| 11. | to furnish or make with cane: to cane chairs. |
| cane (kān) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin canna, small reed, from Greek kanna, of Semitic origin; see qnw in Semitic roots.] can'er n. |
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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.)
