cane
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Is cane a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereofSynonyms: stem, stalk, trunkuncountable
2. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereofSynonyms: reeduncountable
3. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereofExamples: "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."Synonyms: molasses caneuncountable
4. A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereofSouthernUScountableuncountable
5. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a toolExamples: "He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]"Synonyms: rod, switchcountable
6. The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a toolExamples: "The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper."Synonyms: a caning, six of the best, whipping, cutscountableuncountablewith-definite-article
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.Examples: "to cane chairs"; "In colonial days, threesquare was used to cane chair seats."transitive
2. (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.Examples: "Mudchester Rovers were caned 10-0."New-ZealandUKslang
3. (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.New-ZealandUKslang
4. (UK, slang) To go very fast.Synonyms: cane itUKslang
5. (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.Examples: "Don’t hit me with that. It really canes!"; "Mate, my legs cane!"AustraliaUKintransitiveslang
name (English)
1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of Canadian English.Examples: "Finally, section (2.5) reviews diachronic language studies on CanE, which is the area of focus in the present study."; "The present study focusses on the 'other' North American variety of English, Canadian English (CanE) from a diachronic perspective."; "Laurel J. Brinton University of British Columbia, Canada The dearth of real-time studies of the histories of transatlantic English varieties can be attributed to the lack of readily accessible, electronic corpora. However, for Canadian English (CanE) we now have the Bank of Canadian English (BCE), which consists of c. 2.5 million words from written and spoken sources extending from 1505 to the present."Synonyms: CE, en-CEabbreviationalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary