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What does cane mean?

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Noun
  1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof.
    1. (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.
    2. (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.
    3. (uncountable) Sugar cane.
    4. (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.
  2. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.
    1. (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
    2. (uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
    3. A lance or dart made of cane.
  3. A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane.
    1. (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.
    2. (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.
    3. (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.
  4. (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like.
  5. A local European measure of length; the canna.
Verb
  1. To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
  2. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
  3. (Britain, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
  4. (Britain, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
  5. (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
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