Usually means: Stick aiding mobility or balance.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word cane:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. cane, the cane: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cane, the cane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cane: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cane: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cane, cane: Wordnik
  7. cane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CanE, Cane, cane: Wiktionary
  9. cane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cane: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cane, cane: Dictionary.com
  13. cane: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cane (TV series), Cane (disambiguation), Cane (grass), Cane (medical device), Cane (novel), Cane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cane: Rhymezone
  19. cane, cane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CANE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. cane: Free Dictionary
  23. cane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Cane, cane: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. cane, the cane: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. cane: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cane: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cane, the cane: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cane, the cane: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Cane: Merck Manuals
  3. cane: Sound Alike Words
  4. cane, the cane: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. CANE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cane: Easton Bible
  2. Cane: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cane: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cane, cane, cane: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cane (it): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. cane: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cane: Glossary of Glass Terms
  2. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See caned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof
noun:  (uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae
noun:  (uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed
noun:  (uncountable) Sugar cane
noun:  (US, Southern) Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar
noun:  The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool
noun:  (countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.
noun:  (with "the") Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.
noun:  A lance or dart made of cane
noun:  A rod-shaped tool or device, resembling the stem of the plant.
noun:  (countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick
noun:  (countable, glassblowing) A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking
noun:  (countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path
noun:  (uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork and basketry.
noun:  A local European measure of length; the canna.
verb:  To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.
verb:  (transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.
verb:  (UK, New Zealand, slang) To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.
verb:  (UK, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.
verb:  (UK, slang) To go very fast.
verb:  (UK, Australia, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (linguistics) Abbreviation of Canadian English. [The variety of the English language used in Canada.]

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