cane – English noun declension

English noun forms of cane

Noun: cane
Singularcane
Pluralcanes

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:]
  • He stalked behind her simple narrative, a kill-joy parent, hasty, intolerant, keeping a special cane to enforce the authority of his sadistic God[.] [1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 123:]
  • The teacher gave his student the cane for throwing paper.
  • Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane. [1670, John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada:]
  • After breaking his leg, he needed a cane to walk.
  • The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked. [1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Ayrsham Mystery”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:]
  • Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter X, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • She was given mobility training as well — she uses a white cane to make her way independently to the hospital and asks for help to navigate traffic-ridden roads if she needs it. The effort is worth it. [2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPR:]
  • The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm)bor.
3. Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă)bor.
4. Latin canna
5. Old French canebor.
6. Middle English cane
7. English cane
8. 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. See: Middle English Nouns 'cane', Latin Nouns 'canna', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κάννα'.