Cane - English meaning

noun

An iron-tipped stick used by hillwalkers and formerly by mountaineers.

Usage examples:

One sees them stumble on, leaning on alpenstocks or throwing their heads back to gulp the last of a…

noun

A sapling from an ash tree, typically used as a walking stick.

Usage examples:

Also reported were a variety of sticks and other instruments including ashplants, blackthorn sticks…

noun

A stick for supporting bean plants.

Usage examples:

I helped her plant seeds, set up beanpoles, and mend the fence

noun

A long thin stick used to support a plant such as a bean plant while it grows

verb

Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.

Usage examples:

If we were caught we were beaten

noun

A main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry.

Usage examples:

The glissando begins on the second beat

adjective

Short for beatnik.

noun

A slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins. birch trees grow chiefly in northern temperate regions and yield hard, pale, fine-grained timber.

Usage examples:

Police want to identify areas where the western hemlock (tsuga heterophylla) and the birch tree gro…

verb

Beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment.

Usage examples:

The school would attempt to birch them into submission

noun

A tree with a smooth, often white bark (= outer covering), or the wood of this tree

noun

A thorny eurasian shrub which bears white flowers before the leaves appear, followed by astringent blue-black fruits (sloes).

Usage examples:

The planting included oak, ash, crab apple, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, privet and dogwood a…

noun

A bush or small tree that produces sloes (= small, bluish-black fruits that taste sour) and has white flowers in early spring and thorns (= sharp points) on the branches

Usage examples:

There are wildlife-friendly hedges of blackthorn, hawthorn, sweet briar, and dog rose., the blackth…

noun

A whip with a long heavy lash.

Usage examples:

The fictional zorro may have defended himself with a long whip, but a bullwhip was not designed as …

verb

Strike or thrash with a bullwhip.

Usage examples:

He was suspected of bullwhipping a fellow to death

noun

The hooked staff of a shepherd.

Usage examples:

Seizing his crook from behind the door, he set off to call his dogs

verb

Bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).

Usage examples:

He crooked a finger for the waitress

adjective

Bad, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory.

Usage examples:

It was pretty crook on the land in the early 1970s

noun

A flat ruler with a widened end, formerly used for beating children.

Usage examples:

The cane, the birch and the ferule, a flat board also used to beat children and 'adults in a servil…

verb

Flog (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification.

Usage examples:

He flagellated himself with branches

noun

A protozoan that has one or more flagella used for swimming.

Usage examples:

In addition to the protozoan in figure 1.6, several other types were found, including amoebae, othe…

adjective

(of a cell or single-celled organism) bearing one or more flagella.

Usage examples:

Motile flagellate cells

verb

Beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment.

Usage examples:

The men had been flogged and branded on the forehead

noun

An arduous climb or struggle.

Usage examples:

A long flog up the mountainside

verb

Beat with a whip, rod, or cane

verb

Bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully.

Usage examples:

The woman hit the mugger with her umbrella

noun

An instance of striking or being struck.

Usage examples:

Few structures can withstand a hit from a speeding car

verb

Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument

noun

A long whip used for driving and controlling horses.

Usage examples:

Vicious black-eyed figures in long dark cloaks with white neck collars and black horsewhips marshal…

verb

Beat (a person or animal) with a horsewhip.

Usage examples:

She would horsewhip them mercilessly

verb

To hit someone with a whip (= long, thin piece of leather, rope, etc.)

verb

Thrash or whip (a person or animal).

Usage examples:

Chrissie was being larruped with nick's belt

verb

Strike or beat with a whip or stick.

Usage examples:

They lashed him repeatedly about the head

noun

A sharp blow or stroke with a whip or rope.

Usage examples:

He was sentenced to fifty lashes for his crime

verb

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

noun

A material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process.

Usage examples:

A leather jacket

verb

Short for stirrup leather.

noun

Animal skin that has been treated in order to preserve it and is used to make shoes, bags, clothes, equipment, etc.

Usage examples:

A leather jacket, his skin was tough and leathery.

noun

Brown cane that is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles.

Usage examples:

Top hats and black malacca canes are the visual signature of a show that combines cartoon posturing…

noun

A short pole with a broad blade at one or both ends, used without a rowlock to move a small boat or canoe through the water.

Usage examples:

We dug in deep with our paddles

verb

Move through the water in a boat using a paddle or paddles.

Usage examples:

She paddled along the coast

noun

An act of walking with bare feet in shallow water.

Usage examples:

I went for a paddle

noun

A long, slender, rounded piece of wood or metal, typically used with one end placed in the ground as a support for something.

Usage examples:

A tent pole

verb

Another term for perch3 (sense 1 of the noun).

noun

Either of the two locations ( north pole or south pole ) on the surface of the earth (or of a celestial object) which are the northern and southern ends of the axis of rotation.

noun

A short-handled riding whip with a braided leather lash.

Usage examples:

For years people who want to have a recreational horse, and enjoy themselves, and don't want to hav…

verb

Hit with a quirt.

Usage examples:

Claggart quirted her again and again

noun

The thin jointed stems of a palm, used to make furniture.

Usage examples:

A rattan armchair

noun

A thin straight bar, especially of wood or metal.

Usage examples:

Concrete walls reinforced with steel rods

noun

A long, thin pole made of wood, metal, or other material

Usage examples:

A fishing/curtain rod

noun

A whip used as an instrument of punishment.

Usage examples:

Begone, or shall i be required to chastise you with the whip and the scourge once more?

verb

Whip (someone) as a punishment.

Usage examples:

Our people did scourge him severely

noun

Someone or something that causes harm, evil, or destruction

Usage examples:

Smallpox, that scourge of previous generations, now is effectively extinct.

noun

All the people employed by a particular organization.

Usage examples:

A staff of 600

verb

Another term for stave (sense 2).

noun

A mixture of plaster of paris, cement, or a similar material, used for temporary building work.

Usage examples:

Staff may easily be bent, sawed, bored, or nailed.

noun

A strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.

Usage examples:

A row of more than 15 bricks, pieces of concrete, metal poles, wooden stakes and a traffic cone wer…

verb

A territorial division of the mormon church under the jurisdiction of a president.

verb

Gamble (money or something else of value) on the outcome of a game or race.

Usage examples:

One gambler staked everything he'd got and lost

noun

A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

Usage examples:

Hayes picked up a fallen stick and twirled it idly between his fingers.

verb

Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).

Usage examples:

He stuck his fork into the sausage

verb

A long thin implement resembling a length of wood

noun

A strip of leather, cloth, or other flexible material, used to fasten, secure, or carry something or to hold on to something.

Usage examples:

Her bra strap

verb

Fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap.

Usage examples:

I had to strap the bag to my bicycle

verb

An elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position

verb

Hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement.

Usage examples:

He raised his hand, as if to strike me

noun

A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest, typically in an attempt to gain a concession or concessions from their employer.

Usage examples:

Dockers voted for an all-out strike

verb

Deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon

verb

Beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip.

Usage examples:

She thrashed him across the head and shoulders

noun

A violent or noisy movement of beating or thrashing.

Usage examples:

The thrash of the waves

verb

Give a beating to

adjective

(of a person) sitting or standing with the back straight.

Usage examples:

An upright posture

adverb

In or into an upright position.

Usage examples:

She was sitting upright in bed

noun

A post or rod fixed vertically, especially as a structural support.

Usage examples:

The stone uprights of the parapet

noun

An australian aboriginal's war club.

Usage examples:

The men carry hunting weapons such as spears, boomerangs and waddies, a kangaroo and some other ani…

noun

A very large marine mammal with a streamlined hairless body, a horizontal tail fin, and a blowhole on top of the head for breathing.

Usage examples:

Marine mammals include narwhals, beluga whales, walrus, and ringed and bearded seals.

verb

Beat; hit.

Usage examples:

Dad came upstairs and whaled me

noun

A very large sea mammal

noun

A strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.

Usage examples:

I wouldn't be surprised if they walked around their office wearing tight leather and vinyl with whi…

verb

Short for whipper-in.

noun

An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash

verb

Strike sharply, especially with a stick or whip; thrash or flog.

Usage examples:

Nine, or ten times i had thought to have yerked him here under the ribs