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.
Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the bed beside him.
The instant that we heard it, Holmes sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with his cane at the bell-pull.
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