Synonyms for cane

Grammar : Noun

Spell : keyn

Phonetic Transcription : keɪn

Définition of cane

Origin : late 14c., from Old French cane "reed, cane, spear" (13c., Modern French canne), from Latin canna "reed, cane," from Greek kanna, perhaps from Assyrian qanu "tube, reed" (cf. Hebrew qaneh, Arabic qanah "reed"), from Sumerian gin "reed." But Tucker finds this borrowing "needless" and proposes a native Indo-European formation from a root meaning "to bind, bend." Sense of "walking stick" in English is 1580s.

noun stick to aid walking of disabled

Example sentences :

And you seized his cane in a fury, and broke it in returning the blow.
Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger

There are other details I might mention—that cane, for instance—but let it pass.
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

He drew the cane out of the sand, thrusting the stick down in its stead.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

Kirkwood poked his cane through the trap, repeating the address.
Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance

His cane alone would have told it long ago, if nothing else had.
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

He bit his lip and struck with his cane at the buttercup heads.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

Then the cane slipped through his hand and fell rattling to the ground.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

These Lamb women thought her and her cane ridiculous, did they?
Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington

He got up and walked to the window, leaning upon his cane as he went.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

He pointed with his cane in the direction of the chatterers near the kiosk.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

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