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Caning   /kˈeɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Caning

noun
1.
Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).  Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork.






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"Caning" Quotes from Famous Books



... said Walter, more quietly, "here's a history of my life: Greek grammar, lines, detention, caning—caning, detention, lines, Greek grammar. I'm sick of it; I can't and I won't ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... through the same wood with a Whitehaven dandy of sixty, now in Hades, who happened to wear a beautiful wig from which on account of the heat he had removed his hat, we saw with these eyes of ours one of those same thickets which heretofore had been concerned in our own caning, deliberately lift up, suspend, and keep dangling in the air for the contempt of the public that auburn wig which was presumed by its wearer to be simular of native curls. The ugliness of that death's head which by this means was suddenly ...
— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey



Words linked to "Caning" :   work, wicker, piece of work, wickerwork



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