1. cane - Noun
2. cane - Verb
3. Cane - Proper noun
A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.
Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.
Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry.
A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane.
A lance or dart made of cane.
A local European measure of length. See Canna.
To beat with a cane.
To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation. Billie Holiday
Experience is the cane of the blind. Jacques Roumain
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. Miles Davis
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. Tom Waits
Just as a bamboo cane forms a round jet of water, so taking counsel together makes men of one mind. Malawi Proverb
Using the old man's cane to hit his own back. Vietnamese Proverb