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Definitions for Caning

[1] the act of providing chairs or the like with seats made of woven cane.
[2] woven cane for seats of chairs or the like.
[3] a beating with a cane.
[4] a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
[5] a long, hollow or pithy, jointed woody stem, as that of bamboo, rattan, sugar cane, and certain palms.
[6] a plant having such a stem.
[7] split rattan woven or interlaced for chair seats, wickerwork, etc.
[8] any of several tall bamboolike grasses, especially of the genus Arundinaria, as A. gigantea (cane reed, large cane, giant cane, or southern cane) and A. tecta (small cane or switch cane) , of the southern U.S.
[9] the stem of a raspberry or blackberry.
[10] sugarcane.
[11] a rod used for flogging.
[12] a slender cylinder or rod, as of sealing wax or glass.
[13] to flog with a cane.
[14] to furnish or make with cane: to cane chairs.
[15] a beating with a cane as a punishment
[16] informal a severe defeat
[17] the long jointed pithy or hollow flexible stem of the bamboo, rattan, or any similar plant any plant having such a stem
[18] strips of such stems, woven or interlaced to make wickerwork, the seats and backs of chairs, etc (as modifier ) a cane chair
[19] the woody stem of a reed, young grapevine, blackberry, raspberry, or loganberry
[20] any of several grasses with long stiff stems, esp Arundinaria gigantea of the southeastern US
[21] a flexible rod with which to administer a beating as a punishment, as to schoolboys
[22] a slender rod, usually wooden and often ornamental, used for support when walking; walking stick
[23] See sugar cane
[24] a slender rod or cylinder, as of glass
[25] to whip or beat with or as if with a cane
[26] to make or repair with cane
[27] informal to defeat we got well caned in the match
[28] cane it slang to do something with great power, force, or speed or consume something such as alcohol in large quantities you can do it in ten minutes if you really cane it
[29] dialect a female weasel

Words related to Caning

flogging, thrashing, spanking, licking, trouncing, pounding, whipping, thrash, chastise, smack, flog, clobber, knock, hit, pummel, trounce, punch, break, strike, crush

Words nearby Caning

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Origin of Caning

e1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French < Latin canna < Greek kánna < Semitic; compare Akkadian qanū, Hebrew qāneh reed

Other words from Caning

cane·like , adjective
can·y , adjective
re·cane , verb (used with object), re·caned, re·can·ing.
un·caned , adjective

Word origin for Caning

eC18: of unknown origin

Synonyms for Caning

flogging, licking, pounding, spanking, thrashing, trouncing, pasting, pummeling, punishment, tanning, walloping