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cane brakes

cane brakes is the plural of cane brake.

Meaning of 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

Questions about cane brakes

What is cane brakes the plural of?
Cane brakes is the plural of cane brake.

Words near cane brakes in the dictionary

  1. cane beetle
  2. cane beetles
  3. cane bluestem
  4. cane bluestems
  5. cane brake
  6. cane brakes
  7. cane carter
  8. cane carters
  9. cane corso
  10. cane corsos
  11. cane cutter

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