WordNet
n. the stem of various climbing palms of the genus Calamus and related genera used to make wickerwork and furniture and canes [syn: rattan]
Usage examples of "rattan cane".
The view was layered like a cake, in colors almost rich enough to eat, the sleek brown of the river still several miles wide at this point, dark and thick as gravy, teeming with traffic, the motorized longboats quick and buglike, the coal barges, the rafts heaped with yellowy rods of rattan cane, then the lurid green hills and, above, the sky virtually vibrating with blue fire.
The gaps between the saplings were filled with rattan cane split into switches, and overlapping leaves, bunches of rushes, bark.
He carried a long rattan cane, which he flicked against the slave's calves, then grinned fatly at the crowd.
It was easy enough for a bos'n's mate to 'start' a seaman he did not like, giving him a slash across the back with the rattan cane that was his badge of office.
He wore second-hand kid gloves, in good repair, and carried a small rattan cane with a curved handle--a female leg--of ivory.
My golden-shirt stood there, something that looked like a thin, rattan cane in his hand, a frown of disbelief on his face.