cane
拐杖,手杖,甘蔗,藤条
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Definitions
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- : a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- : a long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem, as that of bamboo, rattan, sugarcane, and certain palms.
- : a plant having such a stem.
- : split rattan woven or interlaced for chair seats, wickerwork, etc.
- : any of several tall bamboolike grasses, especially of the genus Arundinaria, as A. gigantea and A. tecta, of the southern United States.
- : the stem of a raspberry or blackberry.
- : sugarcane.
- : a rod used for flogging.
- : a slender cylinder or rod, as of sealing wax or glass.
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caned, can·ing.
- : to flog with a cane.
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Examples
In Los Angeles, a man at a bus stop was beaten with his own cane, and a Thai grandfather died after being pushed to the ground in San Francisco.
“Conventional cane sugar is heavily water intensive,” said Supplant co-founder Tom Simmons in an interview.
Nowadays, Mount Kilimanjaro is almost completely surrounded by developed areas that include wheat farms, commercial sugar cane plantations and rice paddies.
The preppy woven furniture that we associate with the Palm Beach style from the ’60s is also back — in the form of pieces made from natural materials such as cane, jute, wicker and rattan.
The sisters ran through the old family properties and the sugar cane fields.
But the police nevertheless declared Stone to be “armed and dangerous,” despite getting around with a cane.
Hitch picks up his cane, pushes her aside, and laboriously tries to get to his feet, saying, “I'll do it myself.”
He's grinning now and actually stretching his legs--his cane has fallen away as he speaks of the !
His friend has dropped hat and cane in shock but the drawing shows stuff that an Americana collector nowadays would kill for.
The train line that once trundled cane down the coast is now a scenic railway.
In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven and plastered with mud.