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English → English (gcide) Definition: Oberea bimaculata Cane \Cane\ (k[=a]n), n. [OE. cane, canne, OF. cane, F. canne, L. canna, fr. Gr. ka`nna, ka`nnh; prob. of Semitic origin; cf. Heb. q[=a]neh reed. Cf. Canister, canon, 1st Cannon.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Bot.) (a) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and D[ae]manorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. (b) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. (c) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. [1913 Webster] Like light canes, that first rise big and brave. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Note: In the Southern United States great cane is the Arundinaria macrosperma, and small cane is. Arundinaria tecta. [1913 Webster] 2. A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one of the species of cane. [1913 Webster] Stir the fire with your master's cane. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 3. A lance or dart made of cane. [R.] [1913 Webster] Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A local European measure of length. See Canna. [1913 Webster] Cane borer (Zo["o].), A beetle (Oberea bimaculata) which, in the larval state, bores into pith and destroy the canes or stalks of the raspberry, blackberry, etc. Cane mill, a mill for grinding sugar canes, for the manufacture of sugar. Cane trash, the crushed stalks and other refuse of sugar cane, used for fuel, etc. [1913 Webster]