cane n
- a stick that people use to help them walk.
- a long flexible stick for administering beatings, especially one formerly used to punish schoolchildren.
- a hollow lightweight stem of a tropical plant, especially bamboo, used in various ways in the house and garden, for example, as a growing support for plants.
- the stems of various palms and grass plants, for example, rattan, woven together to make furniture, baskets, and other household items.
- the long woody stem of various fruit-bearing plants such as the raspberry or blackberry.
- a coarse grass or reed with long stiff stems, for example, sugar cane or sorghum.