cane brake
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A dense thicket of sugar-canes or bamboos.
Example Sentences
- "‘Well, one Sunday morning, I took ‘Brown Betsy,’ my old two shooter, and all the dogs, and off I sot for the cane brake in the hollow, over back of Ike Hamberlin’s, the steam doctor’ — for I know’d Ike would be tarnation riley if I kilt a bar any where close to his clearin, and that made me sorter ambitious like.’"
- "But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake."
- "I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain Fightin' and trouble are my middle name I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion"