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Definition of Malacca cane
1. Noun. A cane made from the stem of a rattan palm.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malacca Cane
Literary usage of Malacca cane
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"But in fact the name seems now entirely unknown. the well-known 'malacca cane,'
both the bamboo and the malacca cane being articles of export. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"ONE prospect this malacca cane awaits— It may prove useful in Malacca Straits !
TITE EIGHT STICK. Now Protection is rearing its head again, a good use for ..."
3. The Public-school Journal: Devoted to the Theory and Art of School Teaching by George Pliny Brown (1893)
"Then seating himself on one of the stone seats beside the street, he began to
draw lines and circles in the sand with a malacca cane. T recognized him by it ..."
4. Malay Magic: Being an Introduction to the Folklore and Popular Religion of by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"The malacca cane No less distinct are the animistic ideas of the Malays relating
to various species of the Malacca- cane plant. Mr. Wray of the Perak Museum ..."
5. Pictures of Travel by Charles Harvey Genung, Heinrich Heine (1898)
"But such feelings never assail us in Berlin; we there feel that old Fritz and
his malacca cane have lost their power, or else there 1 Sunday children. ..."
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