caning

Thân thiện

A craftsman weaves a new caning seat for an old wooden chair.

Definition

Noun: 1. A method of corporal punishment involving repeated strikes with a cane: The act or instance of beating someone with a cane as a form of discipline or judicial punishment. 2. The material or craft of woven cane: Work made of interlaced slender, flexible stems, especially from rattan or willow, used for making furniture or baskets.

Usage and Examples

• As a form of punishment:
  • Caning is a severe and controversial form of corporal punishment.
  • The judge sentenced the vandal to six strokes of the caning.
• As a material or craft:
  • The antique chair features intricate caning on its seat and back.
  • She learned the traditional art of caning to restore the old rocker.

Advanced Usage

• Judicial caning: Refers specifically to caning administered as a sentence by a court of law, as practiced in some legal systems.
  • Judicial caning for certain offenses remains a topic of international human rights debate.

Variants and Related Words

• Cane (noun): The slender, flexible stick used for punishment or support; also the plant stem used in weaving.
• Cane (verb): To beat or punish with a cane.
• Caned (adjective): Describing an object fitted with woven cane material (e.g., a seat) or a person who has been subjected to caning.

Synonyms

• For punishment: Flogging, whipping, beating, birching.
• For material/craft: Wickerwork, rattan work, basketry.

Related Phrases

• To receive a caning: To be punished by being caned.
  • The student was afraid he would receive a caning for his disobedience.

Học thuật

Noun

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• wicker
• wickerwork