cane brake
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See also: canebrake
English
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[edit]cane brake (plural cane brakes)
- 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