cane

Canis familiaris
Canis familiaris#Translingual

(Cismontane dialects) dog (Canis familiaris)

From Latin canis, canem (“dog”). Cognates with Italian cane, French chien, Sicilian cani.


cane

A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae

(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed

Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.

1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

(US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar

He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]

1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 123:

The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool

(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.

The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.

(with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane.

1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada:

After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.

1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:

Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.

(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick

(countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking

(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path

The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.

A local European measure of length; the canna.

en-noun

cane (countable and uncountable, plural canes)

rottang

slender flexible stem of plants such as bamboo

փայտ

a short wooden or bamboo rod or stick used for corporal punishment

бой с пръчка

the cane: corporal punishment consisting of a beating with a cane

бастун

long collapsible rod used by vision impaired people

From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.


cane

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

to cane chairs

In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats.

2018 March 14, Bryan MacKay, Paddle Maryland: A Guide to Rivers, Creeks, and Water Trails, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 38:

(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0.

(UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.

(UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.

Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!

Mate, my legs cane!

(UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.

en-verb

cane (third-person singular simple present canes, present participle caning, simple past and past participle caned)

canes (present singular third-person)
caning (participle present)
caned (participle past)
caned (past)


cane

Inherited from Middle French cane (“duck, female duck”, literally “loater, little boat”), from Old French cane (“boat, ship; waterbird”), from Middle Low German kane (“boat”), from Proto-Germanic *kaną (“boat, vessel”). See Proto-Germanic *kanô (“boat, vessel”). Cognate with Norwegian kane (“swan-shaped vessel”), Dutch kaan (“boat”), German Kahn (“boat”), Old Norse kæna (“little boat”), and possibly Old Norse knǫrr (“ship”) (whence also Late Latin canardus (“ship”), from Germanic; and Old English cnearr (“merchant ship”)). Related to French canot (“little boat”).


cane

it-noun

cane m (plural cani, feminine cagna, diminutive canìno m or canìna f or cagnétto m or cagnétta f or cagnettìno m or cagnettìna f, augmentative cagnóne, pejorative cagnàccio, endearing cagnolìno)

cani (plural)
cagna (feminine)
canìno (diminutive masculine)
canìna (diminutive feminine)
cagnétto (diminutive masculine)
cagnétta (diminutive feminine)
cagnettìno (diminutive masculine)
cagnettìna (diminutive feminine)
cagnóne (augmentative)
cagnàccio (pejorative)
cagnolìno (endearing)

From the Latin canis, canem (“dog”). Cognate with Sicilian cani.


cane

Oggi fa un freddo cane!


cane

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


cane

second-person singular present active imperative of canō


cane

bamboo, sugar cane, flax, or a similar simple-stemmed plant

the stem or stalk of such a plant, often used to write with

(rare) a metal implement used for surgery

(rare) a bodily passage or tube, such as the trachea

English: cane

Scots: cane

From Old French cane, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na).


cane

fro-noun

cane oblique singular, f (oblique plural canes, nominative singular cane, nominative plural canes)

cane oblique singular or (canonical feminine)
canes (oblique plural)
cane (nominative singular)
canes (nominative plural)

French: canne

Norman: tchêne (Jersey), kyeen (Sark)

desctree

→ Middle English: cane, canne, kane, kanne
English: cane
Scots: cane


cane

From Latin canis, canem (“dog”). Cognate with Italian cane.