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cane

[keyn] noun, verb, caned, can⋅ing.
–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. 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.
–verb (used with object)
10. to flog with a cane.
11. to furnish or make with cane: to cane chairs.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME < MF < L canna < Gk kánna < Sem; cf. Akkadian qanū, Heb qāneh reed


canelike, adjective
cany, adjective
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cane

and caine
  1. n.
    cocaine. (Drugs.) : Even the kids can afford to buy cane now. The social problems of the twenty-first century are starting right here.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

cane 
1398, from O.Fr. canne, from L. canna "reed, cane," from Gk. kanna, probably from Assyr. qanu "tube, reed," from Sumerian gin "reed." Sense of "walking stick" in Eng. is 1590; verb meaning "to beat with a walking stick" is from 1667.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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