"cane piece" meaning in English

See cane piece in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: cane pieces [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cane piece (plural cane pieces)
  1. (now historical) A field of sugarcane. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-cane_piece-en-noun-olBkyks2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for cane piece meaning in English (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cane pieces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cane piece (plural cane pieces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 172",
          "text": "After breakfast we were conducted over several cane pieces, viewing that luxuriant and useful plant in its different stages."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Anthony Trollope, Tales of All Nations",
          "text": "He took Mr. Leslie through his mills and over his cane-pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A field of sugarcane."
      ],
      "id": "en-cane_piece-en-noun-olBkyks2",
      "links": [
        [
          "field",
          "field"
        ],
        [
          "sugarcane",
          "sugarcane"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) A field of sugarcane."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cane piece"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cane pieces",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cane piece (plural cane pieces)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 172",
          "text": "After breakfast we were conducted over several cane pieces, viewing that luxuriant and useful plant in its different stages."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1861, Anthony Trollope, Tales of All Nations",
          "text": "He took Mr. Leslie through his mills and over his cane-pieces.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A field of sugarcane."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "field",
          "field"
        ],
        [
          "sugarcane",
          "sugarcane"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now historical) A field of sugarcane."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cane piece"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.