意味(日本語)

(トウ製の)つえ、ステック

語源

• cane : Gk.L.kanna = あし, とう

意味(英語)

• (noun) A slender, strong but often flexible stem, as of certain bamboos, reeds, or rattans.
• (noun) A plant having such a stem.
• (noun) Such stems or strips of such stems used for wickerwork or baskets.
• (noun) A bamboo (Arundinaria gigantea) native to the southeast United States, having long stiff stems and often forming canebrakes.
• (noun) The stem of a raspberry, blackberry, certain roses, or similar plants.

例文

• Morefield Storey, one of Sumner’s biographers, says Brooks’s cane was “a heavy gutta-percha cane” and that the blows were continued “until the cane broke.