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cane

[kayn] / keɪn /
NOUN
stick to aid walking of disabled
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She had said in a New York Times interview that she could not walk without a cane and used a wheelchair during filming of the Netflix series Dead To Me.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

The memorial installed at the college, near Alton, Hampshire, depicts two pupils, one with a sling and and another holding a cane, embracing each other.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

They also showed her a photo of a portrait of Beata’s second-eldest son, Jacobus Johannes Christoffel, nicknamed Cootje, wearing a green jacket and holding a cane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

That’s in part because Crouch is 75, and a bicycle accident has him using a cane.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The admiral showed no sign of such misgivings; he marched back and forth and twirled his cane with glee.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

This necessitates using canes, trekking poles and the occasional walker as well as taking a wheelchair to the airport gate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Elderly and propping himself up with canes, he said this conflict was of a different magnitude.

From Barron's ● Mar. 18, 2026

Once able-bodied men, they walk with canes, one step at a time.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2025

The team dressed in Santa hats and reindeer antlers, throwing the slowly gyrating microphone to each other to speak while candy canes floated around their heads.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

The tummy medicine tasted like liquid candy canes without sugar, but it worked.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

Italy was caned by New Zealand 96-17 last week in Lyon but the Azzurri are usually thrashed by the All Blacks.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2023

"They went to Aston Villa, got caned and never recovered," said BBC Radio Solent's Adam Blackmore of a 4-0 hammering at Villa Park in March.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

Before drafting his design, Mr. Jouin visited the Richelieu and saw a mix of seating in various rooms, including rows of high-backed caned chairs.

From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2022

I ended up selling our beloved caned bentwood chairs because they just weren't comfortable to sit in for a long time.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2022

It was said by the envious that Broadbent was the midnight poacher on whom Mr. Washington set his dogs, and whom he caned by the river-side at Mount Vernon.

From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

Brooks decided to resign as a matter of honor, although he asserted that the House had no right to punish him since the caning had been a personal matter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

“Miracle on 34th Street” probably was the first movie to give the commercialism of the holidays a stiff caning as we watch mega-department stores Gimbel’s and Macy’s try to outdo each other in Christmas sales.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

"We were caning it," bassist Peter Hook announces jocularly as he recalls the frenzied recording session for the England team's official World Cup anthem.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2020

If Sietsema gave a brutal caning to a new spot you’d probably look askance if you found out that he owned a place across the street.

From Fox News ● Dec. 31, 2018

The next one had on it: Why has south eastern Alaska so many caning factories?

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger


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