canenoun
uk/keɪn/us/keɪn/[ C or U ] the long, hard, hollow stem of particular plants such as bamboo, sometimes used to make furniture or support other plants in the garden
[ C ] a long stick used especially by old, ill, or blind people to help them walk
[ S ] a long, thin stick used in the past as a school punishment
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Parts of plants
- aerial root
- bud
- cambium
- corm
- cotyledon
- fig leaf
- frond
- lamina
- leafless
- lily pad
- meristem
- micropyle
- nectary
- needle
- organ
- rootstock
- testa
- the treetops
- trunk
- twig
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Poles, rods, shafts and sticks
Punishing by causing pain
caneverb [ T ]
uk/keɪn/us/keɪn/to hit a child at school with a stick as a punishment
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Punishing by causing pain
- birch
- cat-o'-nine-tails
- corporal punishment
- flagellate
- flay
- horsewhip
- kneecap
- lynch
- lynch law
- mortification
- mortification of the flesh idiom
- rack
- spanking
- stone
- tar
- thumbscrew
- treadmill
- walloping
- whip
- whipping
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