CANING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does caning mean? 

• CANING (noun)
  The noun CANING has 1 sense:

1. work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

  Familiarity information: CANING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

caning; wicker; wickerwork

Hypernyms ("caning" is a kind of...):

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

 Context examples 

He was taken ill in the night—quite prostrate he was—in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I used at first to wonder what comfort Traddles found in drawing skeletons; and for some time looked upon him as a sort of hermit, who reminded himself by those symbols of mortality that caning couldn't last for ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)