cane
/keɪn/ verb C2- To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
- To make or furnish with cane or rattan. · to cane chairs
He/she/it canes · Past caned · Past participle caned · -ing form caning
Verb forms
- Base form
- cane
- He/she/it
- canes
- Past
- caned
- Past participle
- caned
- -ing form
- caning
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A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them.
You must have observed the way in which he held his head and swung his cane.
“Well, then, if you felt so sure,” replied the new-comer, putting his cane in a corner and his hat on a chair, “allow me to say, my dear Gérard, that it was not very filial of you to keep me waiting at the door.”
“Dark complexion; hair, eyebrows, and whiskers black; blue frock-coat, buttoned up to the chin; rosette of an officer of the Legion of Honor in his button-hole; a hat with wide brim, and a cane.”
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