What is "cane"

Cane \Cane\ (k[=a]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Caned (k[=a]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Caning.]

1. To beat with a cane.
   --Macaulay.

2. To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Cane \Cane\ (k[=a]n), n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q[=a]neh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.]

1. (Bot.)

   1. A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and D[ae]manorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

   2. Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

   3. Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.

      Like light canes, that first rise big and brave.
      --B. Jonson.

      Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. Arundinaria tecta.

2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.

   Stir the fire with your master's cane.
   --Swift.

3. A lance or dart made of cane. [R.]

   Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane.
   --Dryden.

4. A local European measure of length. See Canna.

   Cane borer (Zo["o].), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc.

   Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar.

   Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc.

late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (compare Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s.

"to beat with a walking stick," 1660s, from cane (n.). Related: Caned; caning.

n. 1 To do with a plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane. 2 # (context uncountable English) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae. 3 # (context uncountable English) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed. 4 # (context uncountable English) sugar cane. vb. 1 To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement. 2 (context British New Zealand slang English) To destroy. 3 (context British New Zealand slang English) To do something well, in a competent fashion. 4 (context UK slang intransitive English) To produce extreme pain. 5 (context transitive English) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

v. beat with a cane [syn: flog, lambaste, lambast]

1. n. a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

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

3. a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

Cane is an American television drama created by Cynthia Cidre, who also served as executive producer alongside Jonathan Prince, Jimmy Iovine, and Polly Anthony. The pilot was directed by Christian Duguay. The show chronicled the lives and internal power struggles of a powerful and wealthy Cuban-American family running an immensely successful rum and sugar cane business in South Florida.

Produced by ABC Studios, CBS Paramount Network Television, El Sendero Productions, Interscope Records, and Once A Frog Productions, the series premiered on September 25, 2007 airing on Tuesday nights at 10:00/9:00c on CBS, following The Unit. The series premiere of the show brought in 11 million viewers, the best in its time slot since 1999's Judging Amy.

Canè may refer to:

• Jarbas Faustinho, Brazilian footballer
• Paolo Canè, Italian tennis player

Cane is a 1923 novel by noted Harlem Renaissance author Jean Toomer. The novel is structured as a series of vignettes revolving around the origins and experiences of African Americans in the United States. The vignettes alternate in structure between narrative prose, poetry, and play-like passages of dialogue. As a result, the novel has been classified as a composite novel or as a short story cycle. Though some characters and situations recur between vignettes, the vignettes are mostly freestanding, tied to the other vignettes thematically and contextually more than through specific plot details.

The ambitious, nontraditional structure of the novel - and its later influence on future generations of writers - have helped Cane gain status as a classic of High Modernism. Several of the vignettes have been excerpted or anthologized in literary collections, perhaps most famously the poetic passage "Harvest Song", included in several Norton poetry anthologies. The poem opens with the line: "I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown."

In 2000 Arion Press published an edition of Cane with woodblock prints by the artist Martin Puryear and an afterword by Leon Litwack.

Cane are very tall perennial grasses, with flexible stalks, that grow in damp soils.

Taxa of cane are:

• Arundo, Old World canes
• Arundinaria, New World canes
• Arundo donax, Giant cane
• Arundinaria appalachiana, Hill cane

Cane may also refer to:

• Cane (walking stick), a walking stick (sometimes made of cane)
• Assistive cane, a walking stick used as a mobility aid for better balance
• White cane, a walking stick for mobility or safety of the blind and visually impaired
• Canebrake (disambiguation)
• Caning, corporal punishment with cane (or flexible rattan)
• Caning (furniture), making household furniture out of cane (or wicker or rattan)

A thin, flexible cane designed for corporal punishment.

Cane is any of various tall, perennial grasses with flexible, woody stalks, and more specifically from the genus Arundinaria.

Scientifically speaking, there are either of two genera from the family Poaceae. The genus Arundo is native from the Mediterranean Basin to the Far East. The genus Arundinaria is a bamboo (Bambuseae) found in the New World. Neither genus includes sugarcane (genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae).

Cane commonly grows in large riparian stands known as canebrakes, found in toponyms throughout the Southern and Western United States; they are much like the tules ( Schoenoplectus acutus) of California.

Depending on strength, cane can be fashioned for various purposes, including walking sticks, crutches, assistive canes or judicial or school canes. Where canes are used in corporal punishment, they must meet particular specifications, such as a high degree of flexibility. Cane historically has been used for many other purposes such as baskets, furniture, boats, roofs and wherever stiff, withy sticks can be put to good use.