cane
/keɪn
/- Stam's choice would be this black bamboo whose arching canes can have the gleam of polished ebony.
- Now Alex observed that the third leg was much skinnier than the other two, like a tree branch or a cane.
- Bamboos and other canes often have edible seeds.
- The actual genetic relationships among the native canes and the extent to which they contributed to the commercial hybrid germplasm has been the subject of speculation over the years.
- Every morning he heads out with a flute and two cane baskets flung across his shoulder on a bamboo pole.
- On the ground floor of the venue, an eye-catching collection of cane furniture in a variety of shapes and styles, grabs the attention of visitors.
- The business originally sold pottery, cane furniture and giftware at premises further down the road and was opened as a joint venture between Mrs Noon and her late husband Ronald.
- But the funding announcements Mr Barton is expected to make during a visit to the region, do promise to sweeten the mood of cane farmers.
- Rum is made by fermenting either cane juice or molasses mixed with water, and then distilling the resulting low-alcohol wine.
- Cut out all the old fruiting canes from raspberries, loganberries and blackberries and tie in the new shoots.
- This disease reduces raspberry yields by wilting, stunting, and eventually killing the fruiting cane or the entire plant.
- Prune the flowering side shoots to two to three buds above the structural canes during the dormant season.
- Similarly, canes or walking sticks are often coated with Teflon, so that they will not slip on hard, smooth surfaces.
- My son is off his crutches now but still walks with a cane for support and is always in pain by the end of the day.
- Go for a hike in the Alps and you'll notice a curious thing: Euros love their walking canes.
Synonyms
- The ultimate sanction of the cane still existed but was rarely applied.
- In my day discipline was meted out with either the cane or a strap across the backside.
- I'm very pleased to say I missed out on the days of school corporal punishment and thankfully was never exposed to the cane or other similar infamous tools of torture.
- I remember anticipating the possible punishment of being caned for writing about ‘an enemy’ - a Western Christian woman - and later being admonished by mum for provoking the authorities.
- Being pregnant, I couldn't be caned, lashed or put in the stocks.
- But my wails fell on deaf ears as she continued caning me.
Synonyms
- The 'Canes caned the Crusaders 37-20 in a superb victory.
- They were caned 60 to 7 by the slick 2002 Auckland side.
- Curiously, I had a dream last night that Latham absolutely caned Howard.
- During some of the more mellow bits (i.e. before we really started caning it) the bloke at the front drifted back and had a chat.
- I'm not so bad now but, back then, I was caning it big time.
- But I look at someone like Carl Cox, who's almost 40 and still caning it and I wonder how much longer he'll be able to keep it up.
Derivatives
caner
- How am I going meet a responsible, nurturing woman, who isn't a caner?
- Only problem is that I just had a spliff with my raging caner of a housemate, & it's killer stuff.
- This work was almost certainly subcontracted and the stamp was the caner's method of recording output.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, via Latin from Greek kanna, kannē, of Semitic origin.
cannon from Late Middle English:
This large heavy piece of artillery derives its name from French canon, from Italian cannone ‘large tube’, from canna ‘cane, reed, tube’. Soldiers have been called cannon fodder, no more than material to be used up in war, since the late 19th century—the expression is a translation of German Kanonenfutter. Shakespeare did encapsulate a similar idea much earlier, with his phrase ‘food for powder’ in Henry IV Part 1. Canna or its Greek equivalent kanna is the base of a number of other words in English, as well as giving us the name of the canna lily (mid 17th century), which gets its name from the shape of its leaves. Some reflect the use of the plants for making things, some their hollow stems. Canes (Middle English) are basically the same plant. Canister (Late Middle English) was originally a basket from Latin canistrum ‘basket for bread, fruit, or flowers’, from Greek kanastron ‘wicker basket’, from kanna. Canal (Late Middle English) and channel (Middle English) both come via French from Latin canalis ‘pipe, groove, channel’ from canna, and share a source with the Italian pasta cannelloni (mid 19th century). The medical cannula (late 17th century) was originally a ‘small reed’; a canyon (mid 19th century) is from Spanish cañón ‘tube’ from canna.