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( canes)
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Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
...cane furniture.
...cane sugar...
Bamboo produces an annual crop of cane...
Dig out and burn infected canes.
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A cane is a long thin stick with a curved or round top which you can use to support yourself when you are walking, or which in the past was fashionable to carry with you.
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A cane is a long, thin, flexible stick which in the past was used to hit people, especially children at school, as a punishment.
Until the 1980s some criminals were still flogged with a rattan cane as a punishment.
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The cane is used to refer to the punishment of being hit with a cane.
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see also sugar cane