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Caning
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noun
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.
EXPANDany of several tall bamboolike grasses, especially 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.
8.
a rod used for flogging.
9.
COLLAPSEa slender cylinder or rod, as of sealing wax or glass.
verb (used with object)
10.
to flog with a cane.
11.
to furnish or make with cane: to cane chairs.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin canna < Greek kánna < Semitic; compare Akkadian qanū, Hebrew qāneh reed
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin canna < Greek kánna < Semitic; compare Akkadian qanū, Hebrew qāneh reed
Related forms
cane·like, adjective
can·y, adjective
re·cane, verb (used with object), re·caned, re·can·ing.
un·caned, adjective
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Word Origin & History
cane
late 14c., from O.Fr. cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Mod.Fr. canne), from L. canna "reed, cane," from Gk. kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (cf. Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native IE formation from
EXPANDa root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s; verb meaning "to beat with a walking stick" is from 1660s. Related: Caned; caning.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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caning
a beating administered with a whip or rod, with blows commonly directed to the person's back. It was imposed as a form of judicial punishment and as a means of maintaining discipline in schools, prisons, military forces, and private homes.
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