cane

cane is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 12 senses

Definitions

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 A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.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

    Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste

Synonyms

flog, lambast, lambaste

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cane:

acne, nace

Common word forms

caned, caner, canes, caning

Words from these letters

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