cane

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Down the corridor he came, waving his cane from side to side and just as his cane was about to touch me, he would suddenly stop and reach out with both hands to 'feel' who was there.

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  1. noun A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.
  2. noun A plant having such a stem.
  3. noun Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.

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  • "There is a strong possibility of your springing a leak And Ham twitched at the handle of his neat cane, thereby making it evident that the stick, instead of being a foppish affectation, was a sword cane Come on down the road a piece where she can't see us," Monk invited, "and I'll tie a complicated Turks' head knot in each of your two legs, you over-dressed viper That's perfectly agreeable!" —  055 - The Feathered Octopus
  • Then I threw the sword cane, the picnic basket, the fake beard which I stripped from his chin, and those damned cigars after it. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
  • This was in reality a sword cane, a blade of keenest Damascus steel sheathed within the black metal tube Ham also was eager for action They waited for Monk to appear Monk was the fifth of Doc's friends. —  002 - The Land of Terror
  • The doctor said she'd be fine in two months, and, with the support, which had its own little motors, she wouldn't even need crutches while she healed, although a cane was advisable Fortunately, too, their provincial health plan covered all this. —  AnalogSFF,December2006
  • He had brought along his cane, an innocent-looking black stick which was in reality a sword cane with the blade tipped with a chemical which would produce sudden senselessness There was a car waiting, a sedan. —  126 - The Mental Monster
 

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bamboo ·  stick ·  vine ·  umbrella ·  reed ·  whip ·  leather ·  tobacco ·  knife ·  corn ·  banana ·  grape

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cane:   caning
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin canna, small reed, from Greek kanna, of Semitic origin; see qnw in Semitic roots.

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  1. from Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane, canne (also assibilated chane, channe), French canne = Provencal cana = Spanish caña = Portuguese canna, cana = Italian canna, a reed, a cane (and hence, as a measure of length, French canne = Spanish cana, perhaps directly from Hebrew qāneh, as a measure of length: see caneh), from Latin canna, in Middle Latin also cana, from Greek κάννα, κάννη, a reed, cane, perhaps of Eastern origin: cf. Hebrew qāneh, a reed.
  2. from cane, n.
 

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