Cane vs Clobber - What's the difference?

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Cane is a related term of clobber.

As a proper noun cane

is (linguistics).

As a verb clobber is

(slang) to hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.

As a noun clobber is

(uk|australia|slang) clothing.

cane

English

Noun

To do with a plant with simple stems, like bamboo or sugar cane.

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

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

# (uncountable) Sugar cane.

#* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, chapter=7, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane , and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}

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

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

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

# (uncountable) Corporal punishment by beating with a cane.

# A lance or dart made of cane.

#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign / The flying skirmish of the darted cane .

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

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

#* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}

#* , chapter=10

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}

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

# (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.

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

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, chapter=1, title= The China Governess , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

A local European measure of length; the canna.

Synonyms

* (the slender flexible stem of a plant such as bamboo) stem, stalk; (of a tree) trunk * (the plant itself) reed * (sugar cane) molasses cane * switch, rod * (corporal punishment by beating with a cane) the cane, a caning, six of the best, whipping, cuts * (strong short staff used for support during walking) staff, walking stick * (a long rod often collapsible) white cane, blind man's cane

Derived terms

* bamboo cane * blind man's cane * cane knife * cane rat * cane sugar * cane toad * caneworking * floricane * primocane * sugar cane * walking cane * white cane

Verb

(can)

To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement.

(British, New Zealand, slang) To destroy.

(British, New Zealand, slang) To do something well, in a competent fashion.

(UK, slang, intransitive) To produce extreme pain.

Don't hit me with that. It really canes !

Mate, my legs cane !

To make or furnish with cane or rattan.

to cane chairs

Anagrams

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clobber

English

Etymology 1

British slang from 1941; possibly onomatopoeic of the sound of detonated bombs in the distance.

Verb

(en verb)

(slang) To hit or bash severely; to seriously harm or damage.

* 1954 , , The Blackboard Jungle , 1984, page 201,

So the temptation to clobber was always there, and it was sometimes more difficult not to strike than it would have been to strike, and the consequences be damned.

* 2000 November 30, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) , page 3034,

Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the East African Standard'' newspaper we saw a picture of a man being carried away after being clobbered'''. We also saw women being '''clobbered''' by well-built policemen using big clubs. They were ' clobbering women who had already fallen on the ground.

* 2002 , Donald K. Burleson, Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook , page 395,

Most of the job of the UNIX Oracle DBA is keeping the database running, and it does not come as a surprise when they see how easy it is to clobber a server.

The following script cripples the UNIX server by an implosion of incoming jobs. This is known as a denial of service (DOS) attack.

(computing) To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.

* 1999 , Michael J. Wooldridge, Anand Rao, Foundations of Rational Agency , page 74,

Inferences made in accordance with this reason are defeated by finding that the merged plan clobbers one of the causal-links in one of the constituent plans.

* 2004 , John R. Levine, Margaret Levine Young, Unix for Dummies , page 314,

The cp command does one thing as it clobbers a file; mv and ln do another.

* 2007 , Billy Hoffman, Bryan Sullivan, Ajax Security , unnumbered page,

These functions collide, and we can see in Figure 7-1 that the debug() function for SexyWidgets clobbers' the developer?s debug() function. The last function declared with the same name in the same scope will silently ' clobber the earlier function definition.

Etymology 2

British slang from 19th Century.

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, Australia, slang) Clothing.

* 1892 , , Loot'', in ''Barrack-Room Ballads , Gutenberg eBook #2819,

W?y, they call a man a robber if ?e stuffs ?is marchin? clobber / With the— / (Chorus) Loo! loo! Lulu! lulu! Loo! loo! Loot! loot! loot!

* 1899 , , Gutenberg eBook #3418,

Now to get rid of this respectable clobber and feel like a man again.

* 1919 , , Red Robin'', in ''Jim of The Hills , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0500931,

I was thinkin? of the widow while I gets me clobber on - / Like a feller will start thinkin? of the times that?s past an? gone.

(UK, slang) Equipment.

References

* * The Dinkum Dictionary *