canes
/keɪnz/ · noun
Meaning
- A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
- The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
- A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane
- Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like
- A local European measure of length; the canna.
- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement
- To destroy; to comprehensively defeat
- To do something well, in a competent fashion
- To produce extreme pain
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
- The genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World.
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