cane
/keɪn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.76 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride."
- "He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]"
- "The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper."
- "Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane."
- "After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk."
- "The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked."
Etymology
Etymology tree Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor. Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor. Latin canna Old French canebor. Middle English cane English cane From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Countable
- Transitive verb
- New Zealand usage
- British usage
- Slang
- Australian usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
bamboo cane
blind man's cane
candy cane
cane apple
cane ash
cane beardgrass
cane beetle
cane bluestem