Real Dictionary

cane
Cane is used to refer to the long, hollow, hard stems of plants such as bamboo. Strips of cane are often used to make furniture, and some types of cane can be crushed and processed to make sugar.
countable noun: A cane is a long thin stick with a curved or round top which you can use to support yourself when you are walking, or which in the past was fashionable to carry with you.
countable noun: A cane is a long, thin, flexible stick which in the past was used to hit people, especially children at school, as a punishment.
countable noun: A cane is a tall, narrow stick, usually made of bamboo, which is used for supporting plants.
verb: If a child is caned, he or she is hit with a cane as a punishment.

cane in American English
the slender, jointed, usually flexible stem of any of certain plants, as bamboo or rattan
noun: a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick
transitive verb: to flog with a cane

cane in British English 1
to whip or beat with or as if with a cane
noun: the long jointed pithy or hollow flexible stem of the bamboo, rattan, or any similar plant

cane in British English 2
noun: a female weasel