cane brake

See also: canebrake

English

Alternative forms

• canebrake

Noun

cane brake (plural cane brakes)

1. A dense thicket of sugar-canes or bamboos.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake.

   • 1947, Merle Travis, Sixteen Tons:

     I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
     Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
     I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion

Translations

a dense thicket of sugar-canes

German: Röhricht (de) n Polish: szuwar (pl) m

Anagrams

• canebreak