I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
candy cane
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
raw
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Baldwin Inc. last month fired 200 workers at its Crockett, California, refinery, citing high raw cane sugar prices.
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The sugar program provides loans to growers of 18 cents per pound for raw cane sugar production and limits foreign imports.
■ NOUN
bamboo
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Ann's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked with nails.
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Single bamboo canes are also used as rhythm sticks in many parts of the world, including Polynesia and the Amazon Basin.
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Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane .
chair
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Rosa was sitting in a white cane chair by the window, nursing a baby in her arms.
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He walks over to the brown cane chair by the porch swing and slouches down in It.
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Mrs Merrit motioned me to a cane chair and then sat down herself, crossing her legs.
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Radios sounded from glowing caves along the pavement; families reclined on cane chairs there, looking out at the night.
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We got settled down in a couple of cane chairs , and I gave her a cigarette.
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She sat dawn in one of the cane chairs without speaking: straight-backed, hands folded.
sugar
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Alcohol can be produced from plants such as sugar cane and cassava by fermentation and distillation.
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In the 1920s, they were leaders in a series of bloody strikes that crippled Hawaiian sugar cane growers.
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Finally a juicy ripe pineapple is sliced, and six fresh sticks of sugar cane arrive.
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The toll mounted Friday when three Christians were found slain in sugar cane fields in the nearby village of El Zuheir.
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Behind the mangroves lay low scrub, lagoons, and then narrow flats planted with sugar cane .
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Order the beef teriyaki skewers or lobster chao on sugar cane sticks.
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The main cash crops were coffee, sugar cane and cotton, with cassava the domestic staple.
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And growers just want water for their sugar cane fields.
■ VERB
carry
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I think Policemen should carry small canes , which I think would probably be very effective.
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A dandy with a thin mustache, he carried a cane and wore a hard-visored cap.
use
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You could use just two canes if you prefer.
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She should fold up the parasol, use it for a cane .
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A genetic disorder led to her using a cane and seeking a hip replacement.
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She will be 76 next month and walks with difficulty, using a cane .
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Firm soil around roots and stake standard-trained plants using a bamboo cane .
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He used a cane and tried to walk fast and his hips bobbed like pistons gone awry.
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The great woman came in: standing four foot eight, using a gold-topped cane .
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When he completed his term last May he was pale and weak and used a cane .
walk
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John Wheatley and his walking cane .
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He walks with a cane because of an arthritic leg.
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At work, she wears artificial legs and walks stiffly with a cane .
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He was smiling and walking with a cane .
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The bruise was so severe that he walked with a cane for months and underwent thousands of dollars in medical treatment.
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He was an overweight man with large shaggy ears and he walked with a cane , but he did not lack vibrancy.
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She is just now starting to walk without a cane .
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Cam, 67, wears a hearing aid and a black beret and walks with a cane .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cane and wicker rocker
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He was walking slowly with a cane .
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raspberry canes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anselm: it was his arms, in a cane roller.
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Don't leave unvarnished wicker or cane outside.
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He tapped one of his canes with impatience.
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I think Policemen should carry small canes, which I think would probably be very effective.
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Rosa was sitting in a white cane chair by the window, nursing a baby in her arms.
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The old lady took her cane and began banging on the door in the partition in back of her.
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Use a small split cane the width of the seed tray to make a series of depressions in the levelled compost.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clare was less often caned than Lilian, as she was more intelligent.
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However, there is no point investing for the long term at the risk of being caned in the short term.
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The prefects had the power to cane you on the hand with a ruler.