Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun caning

1 sense of caning

Sense 1
wicker, wickerwork, caning -- (work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches))
       => work, piece of work -- (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cane

1 sense of cane

Sense 1
cane, flog, lambaste, lambast -- (beat with a cane)
       => beat, beat up, work over -- (give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students")