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
- 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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