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cane

(kān)

a. A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.

b. A plant having such a stem.

c. Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.

2. A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes.

3. The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants.

4. Sugarcane.

5. A stick used as an aid in walking or carried as an accessory.

6. A rod used for flogging.

7. A glass cylinder made of smaller, variously colored glass rods that have been fused together, used in glassmaking.

tr.v. caned, can·ing, canes

1. To make, supply, or repair with flexible woody material.

2. To hit or beat with a rod.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin canna, small reed, from Greek kanna, of Semitic origin; see qnw in Semitic roots.]

can′er n.

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caning

(ˈkeɪnɪŋ)

1. a beating with a cane as a punishment

2. informal a severe defeat

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Noun

caning - work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

wickerwork, wicker

piece of work, work - a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"

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bastonatura

caning

[ˈkeɪnɪŋ] N to give sb a caning → castigar a algn con la vara or palmeta (fig) → dar una paliza a algn

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caning

n (= beating with cane) → Schläge pl → mit dem Stock, Prügeln nt (inf); to give somebody a caning → jdm eine Tracht Prügel verabreichen; to get a caning (Sport) → haushoch geschlagen werden; (new play etc) → verrissen werden

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caning

[ˈkeɪnɪŋ] n to give sb a caning → dare bacchettate a qn (per punizione)

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I used at first to wonder what comfort Traddles found in drawing skeletons; and for some time looked upon him as a sort of hermit, who reminded himself by those symbols of mortality that caning couldn't last for ever.

He was taken ill in the night - quite prostrate he was - in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.

The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; of the waning summer and the changing season; of the frosty mornings when we were rung out of bed, and the cold, cold smell of the dark nights when we were rung into bed again; of the evening schoolroom dimly lighted and indifferently warmed, and the morning schoolroom which was nothing but a great shivering-machine; of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog's-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

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The Black Book was a sombre volume in which the names of boys were written with their misdeeds, and when a name was down three times it meant a caning. Philip went to the headmaster's house and knocked at his study-door.

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A short video clip of a woman, believed to be the student's mother, berating the male teacher for caning the girl, has seen been shared widely on social media.

Deputy education minister says decision on JB teacher who caned girl after today's meeting

Caning was banned in 2001 after the Children's Act took effect in a gazette notice dated March 13, 2001, by the then Education minister, Kalonzo Musyoka.