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Cates vs Canes - What's the difference?

cates | canes |

As nouns the difference between cates and canes

is that cates is provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties while canes is plural of lang=en.

As a verb canes is

third-person singular of cane.

cates

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • (archaic) Provisions; food; viands; especially, luxurious food; delicacies; dainties.
  • * (Shakespeare)
  • * Churchill
  • Cates for which Apicius could not pay.
  • * Robert Browning
  • Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth.
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    canes

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • The genus , the sole temperate genus of bamboo native to the New World.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (cane)
  • Anagrams

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