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Word entry · 4 letters

cane

Best crossword clue

"Plant stem or stick"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /keɪn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acenStarts with CEnds with E2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A walking stick or a long hollow plant stem.

Word origin

From Middle English cane, canne, from Old French cane (“sugar cane”), from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”). Doublet of canna and kaneh. Related to channel and canal.

Used in a sentence

  • Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
  • He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.]
  • The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.

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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Plant stem or stick4 letters
02Walking stick4 letters

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