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Definition of Cane brake

Cane brake
Brake Brake, n. [OE. brake fern; cf. AS. bracce fern, LG. brake willow bush, Da. bregne fern, G. brach fallow; prob. orig. the growth on rough, broken ground, fr. the root of E. break. See Break, v. t., cf. Bracken, and 2d Brake, n.] 1. (Bot.) A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. 2. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. --Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. --Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.

Meaning of Cane brake from wikipedia

- densely the cane grew and how difficult it was to travel through. For example, in 1728 William Byrd described hacking through a "forest" of cane "more than...
- The Battle of Great Cane Brake was a skirmish fought on December 22, 1775, during the American Revolutionary War in what was then Ninety-Six District,...
- Cane Brake was a plantation home in Saluda, South Carolina, an historic property of Thomas Green Clemson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after whom Clemson...
- Sarracenia alabamensis, also known as the cane-brake pitcher plant, is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia. Like all Sarracenia, it is native to...
- Look up cane brake in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A canebrake is a thick, dense growth of cane or sugarcane. Canebrake may also refer to: Places...
- the Red River. At what he called "The Big Cane Brake", Eldret had Northup and other enslaved people clear cane, trees, and undergrowth in the bottomlands...
- stream of water, at the temperature of 84° [29 °C], which flows from a canebrake, near the base of the mountain. It is soft yet brackish, and there is...
- Revolution 1775 Snow Campaign Siege of Savage's Old Fields Battle of Great Cane Brake Battle of the Rice Boats Battle of ****van's Island Moultrie Flag Carolina...
- name Shambia, meaning "clear water", or the Choctaw word for "cane-brake" or "reed-brake". The Choctaw were another major tribe in the Southeast. Created...
- in the U.S. state of Louisiana, known for its fertile, flat farmland, cane brakes, and open spaces. The parish had a po****tion of 20,043 at the 2020 United...