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cang

cang is the alternative form of cangue.

Meaning of cangue

Noun

cangue (plural cangues)

  1. A heavy wooden collar or yoke borne on the shoulders and enclosing the neck and arms, formerly used in East Asia to punish thieves and other criminals.

Forms of cang

pluralcangs

Questions about cang

What is cang the alternative form of?
Cang is the alternative form of cangue.

Words near cang in the dictionary

  1. Canforas
  2. canfosfamide
  3. Canfranc
  4. canful
  5. canfuls
  6. cang
  7. Cang-adieng
  8. Cang-agong
  9. Cang-alwang
  10. Cang-asa
  11. Cang-atuyom

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cang (page history and authors); cangue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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