Cane vs. Crutch

Canenoun

A plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem thereof.

Canenoun

(uncountable) The slender, flexible main stem of a plant such as bamboo, including many species in the grass family Gramineae.

Canenoun

(uncountable) The plant itself, including many species in the grass family Gramineae; a reed.

Canenoun

(uncountable) Sugar cane.

Canenoun

Maize or, rarely, sorghum, when such plants are processed to make molasses (treacle) or sugar.

Canenoun

The stem of such a plant adapted for use as a tool.

Canenoun

(countable) A short rod or stick, traditionally of wood or bamboo, used for corporal punishment.

Canenoun

(uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

Canenoun

A lance or dart made of cane.

Canenoun

A rod-shaped tool or device, somewhat like a cane.

Canenoun

(countable) A strong short staff used for support or decoration during walking; a walking stick.

Canenoun

A length of colored and/or patterned glass rod, used in the specific glassblowing technique called caneworking.

Canenoun

(countable) A long rod often collapsible and commonly white (for visibility to other persons), used by vision impaired persons for guidance in determining their course and for probing for obstacles in their path.

Canenoun

(uncountable) Split rattan, as used in wickerwork, basketry and the like.

Canenoun

A local European measure of length; the canna.

Caneverb

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

Caneverb

To destroy; to comprehensively defeat.

Caneverb

To do something well, in a competent fashion.

Caneverb

To produce extreme pain.

Caneverb

(transitive) To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

Canenoun

A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Dæmanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans.

Canenoun

A walking stick; a staff; - so called because originally made of one of the species of cane.

Canenoun

A lance or dart made of cane.

Canenoun

A local European measure of length. See Canna.

Caneverb

To beat with a cane.

Caneverb

To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs.

Canenoun

a stick that people can lean on to help them walk

Canenoun

a strong slender often flexible stem as of bamboos, reeds, rattans, or sugar cane

Canenoun

a stiff switch used to hit students as punishment

Caneverb

beat with a cane

Canenoun

the hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan.

Canenoun

any plant that produces canes.

Canenoun

stems of bamboo, rattan, or wicker used as a material for making furniture or baskets

Canenoun

short for sugar cane

Canenoun

a flexible woody stem of the raspberry plant or any of its relatives

Canenoun

a length of cane or a slender stick, especially one used as a support for plants, a walking stick, or an instrument of punishment

Canenoun

a form of corporal punishment used in certain schools, involving beating with a cane

Caneverb

beat with a cane as a punishment

Caneverb

defeat heavily or punish severely

Caneverb

take (drink or drugs) in large quantities

Crutchnoun

A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.

Crutchnoun

Something that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop

Crutchnoun

A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.

Crutchnoun

(nautical) A knee, or piece of knee timber.

Crutchnoun

(nautical) A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.

Crutchnoun

(heraldry) A type of cross formed from two "C"s joined back-to-back

Crutchverb

(transitive) To support on crutches; to prop up.

Crutchverb

(transitive) To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.

Crutchnoun

A staff with a crosspiece at the head, to be placed under the arm or shoulder, to support the lame or infirm in walking.

Crutchnoun

A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.

Crutchnoun

A knee, or piece of knee timber

Crutchverb

To support on crutches; to prop up.

Crutchnoun

a wooden or metal staff that fits under the armpit and reaches to the ground; used by disabled person while walking

Crutchnoun

anything that serves as an expedient;

Crutch

A crutch is a mobility aid that transfers weight from the legs to the upper body. It is often used by people who cannot use their legs to support their weight, for reasons ranging from short-term injuries to lifelong disabilities.