- cane - a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
--1 is a kind of walking stick
--1 has particulars:malacca, malacca cane; swagger stick; sword cane, sword stick - cane - a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane
--2 is a kind of stalk, stem
--2 has particulars: sugarcane, sugar cane; rattan, rattan cane; malacca- cane - a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment
--3 is a kind of switch
Derived form: verb cane1 - cane - a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane