rattan

1. (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.Examples: "It took Elwood an hour to find Mr. Gladwell, who sat in a big rattan chair at the edge of the sweet potato fields."uncountable

2. (by extension) A cane made from this material.Examples: "He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out."; "“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”"; "[…]the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline[…]"broadlycountableuncountable