as in baton
a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment
in those days corporal punishment was common, and the cane was regarded as another one of the schoolmaster's educational tools
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Recent Examples of cane
Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
These arches, made mainly of flowers, palm leaves, cane, and colored paper, are erected both at the entrances of homes and in cemeteries.
—Arath Zumaya Muñoz, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Feb. 2024
Avoid textured tables with rattan, raffia, or caning, and look for an easy-to-wipe surface.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2024
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Noun
Picture those polished marketing campaigns: images of people using wheelchairs, signing in American Sign Language, navigating spaces with service dogs or white canes, or relying on audio screen readers.
—Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
These arches, made mainly of flowers, palm leaves, cane, and colored paper, are erected both at the entrances of homes and in cemeteries.
—Arath Zumaya Muñoz, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2024
Verb
One of my favorite pieces of furniture in my childhood home was a wooden and metal rocking chair that had caning details.
—Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Feb. 2024
Avoid textured tables with rattan, raffia, or caning, and look for an easy-to-wipe surface.
—Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Feb. 2024
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Indy can pick up pretty much anything from broomsticks to batons to protect himself and can engage in a relatively complex version of POV fisticuffs that allows players to block, parry, and punch with either hand.Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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After more than two minutes, Officer Laxman Acharya, also with the Fourth Division, arrived and attempted to use an expandable baton to gain leverage over one of Thompson's arms.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2024
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Almost from the start, Dharavi was defined by its industries: from the traditional potters of Gujarat who began arriving in the late 1800s, to leather tanners from Tamil Nadu and embroidery workers from Uttar Pradesh.Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 June 2024
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Look to leather knee-high pairs from Jimmy Choo, Isabel Marant, Khaite, and & Other Stories for a similar version of the model-off-duty style.Laura Jackson, Vogue, 15 Aug. 2022
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This includes everything from over-the-knee, platform boots that feature quilting along the sides and straps up the back of the calf, to one of this year’s trendiest silhouettes: simple stiletto slingbacks.Mikelle Street, Them, 26 Nov. 2024
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However, after nine days it was revealed Smith herself had let her car, with her children strapped inside, sink into John D. Long Lake.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
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The Speccie’s star columnist is the rudest man in Christendom, the Godzilla of contumely, an all-time non-sufferer of fools who horsewhips his targets the way Hunter S. Thompson and Christopher Hitchens once did.Kyle Smith, National Review, 23 Apr. 2020
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In reality, Watson wasn’t a bar fighter or famous for horsewhipping cowboys.Eliza McGraw, Smithsonian, 12 Mar. 2018
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Hitler exploited his 37% to gridlock legislative processes, to cudgel or crush the political opposition, and ultimately to undermine the country’s democratic structures.Timothy Ryback, TIME, 26 Apr. 2024
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Before long, fairs had such attractions as cudgelling bouts, bearbaiting, and something called gouging.Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
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Pop stars being badasses, as ever, but expressing doubt, and doing it without the flagellating self-destruction that might have come with an early iteration.Susannah Felts, Longreads, 27 Apr. 2023
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For Logan, none of these self-flagellating exercises mattered.Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2023
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Sylvia scourges herself with an intensity that would make hairshirted flagellants seem soft.Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2024
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Social instability and post-pandemic economic pressures fueled surges in migration across the world. 2023 will probably be the hottest year on record, with heat waves scourging every continent, accompanied by other extreme climactic events.Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
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There’s no clearer signal that social mores are a tad bit different in the 18th century than when Claire is spanked by husband Jamie after disobeying one of his orders.Amy Wilkinson, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2024
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It’s all spanked along by one of those golly-gee bumptious holiday musical scores.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Cane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cane. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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