Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cane"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Cane
a tall sedgy plant with a hollow stem, growing in moist places.
In Isa. 43:24; Jer. 6:20, the Hebrew word _kaneh_ is thus
rendered, giving its name to the plant. It is rendered "reed" in
1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6; 35:7. In Ps. 68:30 the
expression "company of spearmen" is in the margin and the
Revised Version "beasts of the reeds," referring probably to the
crocodile or the hippopotamus as a symbol of Egypt. In 2 Kings
18:21; Isa. 36:6; Ezek. 29:6, 7, the reference is to the weak,
fragile nature of the reed. (See {CALAMUS}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cane \Cane\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Caned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Caning}.]
1. To beat with a cane. --Macaulay.
2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane
chairs.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cane \Cane\, n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna,
fr. Gr. ?, ?; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q[=a]neh
reed. Cf. {Canister}, {canon}, 1st {Cannon}.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of
{Calamus} and {D[ae]manorops}, having very long,
smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
(b) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and
bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
(c) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as,
the canes of a raspberry.
Like light canes, that first rise big and brave.
--B. Jonson.
Note: In the Southern United States {great cane} is the
{Arundinaria macrosperma}, and {small cane} is. {A.
tecta}.
2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally
made of one the species of cane.
Stir the fire with your master's cane. --Swift.
3. A lance or dart made of cane. [R.]
Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The
flying skirmish of the darted cane. --Dryden.
4. A local European measure of length. See {Canna}.
{Cane borer} (Zo["o].), A beetle {(Oberea bimaculata)} which,
in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes
or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.
{Cane mill}, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the
manufacture of sugar.
{Cane trash}, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar
cane, used for fuel, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cane
n 1: a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
2: a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds,
rattans, or sugar cane
3: a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
v : beat with a cane [syn: {flog}, {lambaste}, {lambast}]
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