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Definition of Caning
1. Noun. Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches).
Definition of Caning
1. Verb. (present participle of cane) ¹
2. Noun. A beating with a cane. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caning
1. cane [v] - See also: cane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caning
Literary usage of Caning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How to Make Baskets by Mary White, Neltje Blanchan (1906)
"caning IN A FRAME AND ON A CHAIR Two patterns of caning are illustrated in this
plate. The simple cross pattern is shown in the frame on the wall, ..."
2. American States, Churches, and Slavery by Joshua Rhodes Balme (1862)
"now and then, as our Americans called it; such as the caning of Sumner.
MISSOURI COMPROMISE. This was another secondary cause of the present unhappy strife ..."
3. Handicrafts for the Handicapped by Herbert James Hall, Mertice McCrea Buck Knox (1916)
"II CHAIS, SEATING caning CHAIRS TWENTY-FIVE or thirty years ago there was in
nearly every household ..."
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