Noun

(en noun)

Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus .

(lb) The plant used as a material.

A cane made from this material.

*1906 , Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula

*:He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.

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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan . ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

*2008 , Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization

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Noun

(en-noun)

An action in which something is baked

I'm going to do some baking this afternoon.

* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Harriet Jacobs (AKA Linda Brent), title=Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Upon these terms, after working hard all day for her mistress, she began her midnight bakings , assisted by her two oldest children. }}

The way in which something is baked

* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=Ledyard Bill, title=Minnesota; Its Character and Climate, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=How often have we risen in the morning, after spending the night in this manner, with a feeling akin to that which we fancy would come from being knocked in the head with a sack of meal, then gently stewed, and all out of pure fraternal regard to supply any deficiencies in our original bakings . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Captain R. F. Scott, title=Scott's Last Expedition Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Clissold's work of cooking has fallen on Hooper and Lashly, and it is satisfactory to find that the various dishes and bread bakings maintain their excellence. }}