·vt To beat with a cane.
II. Cane ·noun A lance or dart made of cane.
III. Cane ·vt To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
IV. Cane ·noun A local European measure of length. ·see Canna.
V. Cane ·noun Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
VI. Cane ·noun A walking stick; a staff;
— so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
VII. Cane ·noun Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
VIII. Cane ·noun A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.