canes

Meanings

Noun

• a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
• a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
• a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
• plural of cane
• Bamboo plants of genus Arundinaria, the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World.

Verb

• beat with a cane
• preserve in a can or tin
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
• third-person singular simple present indicative of cane

Synonyms

can, cane, dismiss, displace, fire, flog, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, lambast, lambaste, put up, sack, send away, terminate, tin

Antonyms

hire