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1.
Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of ~ are often used to make furniture, and some types of ~ can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
...~ furniture.
...~ sugar...
Bamboo produces an annual crop of ~...
Dig out and burn infected ~s.
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2.
A ~ 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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3.
A ~ 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 ~ as a punishment.
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The ~ is used to refer to the punishment of being hit with a ~.
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4.
see also sugar ~