Cane

n.	1.
	1.	(Bot.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. - B. Jonson.
	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	A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.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. 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 (Zoö.) 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.
v. t.	1.	To beat with a cane. [imp. & p. p. Caned (kānd); p. pr. & vb. n. Caning.]
	2.	To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Noun	1.	cane - a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
	2.	cane - a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
	3.	cane - a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
Verb	1.	cane - beat with a cane Synonyms: lambast, lambaste, flog

To see or use a cane in your dream, suggests that you are in need of some support and advice. The cane may also represent someone you trust and can rely on.Boston type, Braille, Malacca cane, New York point, Optacon, Pathsounder, Seeing Eye dog, Visotoner, advocate, aftergrass, alpenstock, anthrophore, arm, athletic supporter, axis, back, backbone, backing, bamboo, bandeau, baste, bastinado, baton, bearer, beat, belabor, belt, birch, bole, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, buffet, buttress, carpophore, carrier, caudex, caulicle, caulis, cereal, cereal plant, cervix, club, corn, corset, cowhide, crook, crosier, cross, cross-staff, crutch, crutch-stick, cudgel, culm, cut, drub, embosser, farinaceous plant, ferule, flagellate, flail, flog, fog, footstalk, forage grass, foundation garment, fulcrum, funicule, funiculus, fustigate, girdle, give a whipping, give the stick, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, guide dog, guy, guywire, handstaff, haulm, high-speed embosser, horsewhip, jock, jockstrap, knout, lace, lash, lawn grass, lay on, leafstalk, line letter, lituus, mainstay, maintainer, mast, neck, noctograph, optophone, ornamental grass, paddle, pandybat, pastoral staff, paterissa, pedicel, peduncle, personal sonar, petiole, petiolule, petiolus, pistol-whip, pommel, prop, pummel, quarterstaff, rattan, rawhide, reed, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, rigging, rod, ruler, scourge, seedstalk, sensory aid, shillelagh, shoulder, shroud, sight-saver type, smite, spank, spear, spine, spire, sprit, staff, stalk, standing rigging, stave, stay, stem, stick, stiffener, stipe, stock, strap, straw, strengthener, string alphabet, stripe, support, supporter, sustainer, swagger stick, swanking stick, swinge, switch, talking book, thrash, thump, tigella, trounce, truncheon, trunk, ultrasonic spectacles, upholder, visagraph, walking stick, wallop, whale, whip, whop, writing frame, writing stamps

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