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canes

/keɪnz/ · noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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