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A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.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