cane

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He ran a boiler at a sugar cane processing plant.

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a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

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noun

a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

noun

a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

noun

a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for cane.

noun

a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

noun

a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

noun

a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

verb

beat with a cane

Example sentences

He ran a boiler at a sugar cane processing plant.

Sugar cane is the most harvested crop worldwide.

If you can bring in toads to eat a significant fraction of the beetles that are destroying the sugar cane crops, why wouldn't you do that?

The way he did this was absolutely incredible: tap the cane on the curb, and you can hear the echo from the curb and buildings across the road.

It's about a 1963 incident when a white Maryland farmer named William Zantzinger got drunk and started harassing a middle-aged black barmaid and hitting her with a cane.

Suggesting that brown sugar is a good way to "top up" our carb load is terrible advice - all cane sugars are simple sugars, meaning they jack up your glycemic index and then crash you after.

A Congressman beat one of his colleagues with a cane on the floor of Congress itself!Even today, offline culture somehow seems more nasty/violent to me than online culture.