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cane
 
Noun cane has 3 senses
  1. cane - a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
    --1 is a kind of     walking stick
    --1 has particulars:
     malacca, malacca cane; swagger stick; sword cane, sword stick
  2. cane - a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
    --2 is a kind of     stalk, stem
    --2 has particulars: sugarcane, sugar cane; rattan, rattan cane; malacca
  3. cane - a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
    --3 is a kind of     switch
    Derived form: verb cane1
Verb cane has 1 sense
  1. cane, flog, lambaste, lambast - beat with a cane
    --1 is one way to beat, beat up, work over
    Derived form: noun cane3
    Sample sentence:
    They want to cane the prisoners
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