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Corporal punishment
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caning
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Word definitions for caning in dictionaries
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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 ...
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n. a beating with a cane vb. (present participle of cane English)
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n. work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) [syn: wicker , wickerwork ]
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.