Cane

·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— so called because originally made of one the species of cane.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.