A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof, including many species in the grass family gramineae, and can also refer to sugar cane, maize, or sorghum when processed to make molasses or sugar.

A stem of a plant that can be used as a tool, a short rod traditionally made of wood or bamboo used for corporal punishment, or a lance or dart made of cane.

A rod-shaped tool or device used for support or decoration during walking, a length of colored and/or patterned glass rod used in glassblowing, or a long rod often collapsible and commonly white used by vision impaired persons for guidance and probing for obstacles.

(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like

A local European measure of length; the canna.

to strike or beat with a cane or similar implement

(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to destroy; to comprehensively defeat

(Britain, New Zealand, slang) to do something well, in a competent fashion

(UK, slang, intransitive) to produce extreme pain

(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.