Crossword clues for caning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
caning \can"ing\ n. something made of interlaced slender branches of especially willow.
Syn: wicker, wickerwork. [WordNet 1.5] ||
Wiktionary
n. a beating with a cane vb. (present participle of cane English)
WordNet
n. work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) [syn: wicker, wickerwork]
Wikipedia
Rattan cane
Caning is a form of corporal punishment consisting of a number of hits (known as "strokes" or "cuts") with a single cane usually made of rattan, generally applied to the offender's bare or clothed buttocks (see spanking) or hand(s) (on the palm). Application of a cane to the knuckles or the shoulders has been much less common. Caning can also be applied to the soles of the feet ( foot whipping or bastinado). The size and flexibility of the cane and the mode of application, as well as the number of the strokes, vary greatly—from a couple of light strokes with a small cane across the seat of a junior schoolboy's trousers, to 24 very hard, wounding cuts on the bare buttocks with a large, heavy, soaked rattan as a judicial punishment in south-east Asia.
The thin cane generally used for corporal punishment is not to be confused with a walking stick, sometimes also called (especially in American English) a "cane" but which is thicker and much more rigid, and more likely to be made of stronger wood than of cane.
In the context of furniture, caning is a method of weaving chair seats and other furniture either while building new chairs or in the process of cane chair repair. The material used in caning chairs is derived from the peeled bark or skin of the rattan vine native to Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia. Some vines reach 600 feet in length. Rattan vine looks somewhat similar to bamboo but is quite different in that bamboo is hollow and holds itself upright while rattan is a solid flexible vine that needs the support of surrounding structure to elevate itself off the forest floor. It climbs to the top of canopies of the forest to reach sunlight with the help of large rugged thorns that grab hold of surrounding trees. Sometimes much of the length of these rugged vines are draped along the forest floor from tree to tree in search of a suitable structure to climb.
Mistakenly some people confuse furniture or chair caning with wicker. To clarify, chair caning is specifically the craft of applying rattan cane or rattan peel to a piece of furniture such as the backs or seats of chairs, whereas wicker or wicker work is a reference to the craft of weaving any number of materials such as willow or rattan reeds as well as man made paper based cords. Wicker work is commonly used in basket and furniture weaving.
Category:Furniture
Usage examples of "caning".
Murray had given me, and in which I fared badly enough at the author's hands I had small reason to be pleased with him, and I let him know my opinion in such wise that the abbe who dreaded a caning, kept upon his guard.
Hackworth got the impression that this business about the caning and the Primer was a mere prelude to something bigger, and that the Judge just wanted to get through it.
My last evening in London, Janet bending over an umbrella stand like the one inside my front door, and her boyfriend Jacques caning her plump bottom with a birch cane like one I saw years ago in an antique shop, but was too embarrassed to buy.
Later that night the girls and the men they were with in their bedrooms heard the sounds of a caning coming from the living room.
And Libby had tied Cynthia to the bench for a dozen licks, besides the time she ordered the girls to supplement the caning by the lunatic blind date.
Bravado on Janet's part, since the rest of us looking forward to Jacques caning her for infidelity right after dessert.
All accusations accepted as true, no defenses heard, and additional caning meted out on the spot.
This was more a symbolic caning than a real one, designed to establish dominance and turn her on.
It's been a long time since I've given a slave a good caning, and it's made me hot as a rocket thruster.
It wasn't, Miriam confessed that she could not get the caning cut o under thirty strokes.
In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning has a reformatory influence.
Her long hair, mussed from the writhing of her head during the caning, spilled unkempt locks over her slim shoulders.
One learned to live with canings, but I knew Alexi too well to believe he'd been insolent and insubordinate as the lieutenant had alleged.
Matthews, is a decent sort of chap who doesn’t believe in the cane, though I suspect that canings at Proctor’s are rather frowned upon because the pupils are all foreigners of exalted station.
Fights in prep school, canings, exams in university, love affairs -- all that had really been simple.