caning

Meanings

Plural: canings

Noun

• work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)
• A beating with a cane, especially as a form of punishment

Verb

• beat with a cane
• preserve in a can or tin
• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
• present participle and gerund 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, wicker, wickerwork

Antonyms

hire