cane

cane has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
• n.. Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
• n.. Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
• n.. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
• n.. A lance or dart made of cane.
• n.. A local European measure of length. See Canna.
• v. t.. To beat with a cane.
• v. t.. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
• n.. a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
• n.. a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
• n.. a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
• v.. beat with a cane