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Cane mill

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 A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.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

Usage examples of "cane mill".

We continued to travel in this way for nine long weary nights, and on the morning of the tenth day, as we were going into the woods to hide as usual, a little before daylight, we came to a small pond at which there was a negro boy watering two mules before hitching them to a cane mill, it then being cane grinding time in Georgia.