cane brake

Noun

cane brake (plural cane brakes)

1. A dense thicket of sugar-canes or bamboos.
   • ‘Well, one Sunday morning, I took ‘Brown Betsy,’ my old two shooter, and all the dogs, and off I sot for the cane brake in the hollow, over back of Ike Hamberlin’s, the steam doctor’ — for I know’d Ike would be tarnation riley if I kilt a bar any where close to his clearin, and that made me sorter...1849 November 10, The Spirit of the Times, New York, page 542, column 3
   • But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC