vt to beat with a cane.
2. cane ·noun a lance or dart made of cane.
3. cane ·vt to make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
4. cane ·noun a local european measure of length. ·see canna.
5. cane ·noun stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
6. cane ·noun a walking stick; a staff;
so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
7. cane ·noun any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
8. cane ·noun a name given to several peculiar palms, species of calamus and daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.