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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, William Byrd in 1728 described hacking through a "forest" of cane "more than...
- Cane Brake was a plantation home in Saluda, South Carolina, an historic property of Thomas Green Clemson of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after whom Clemson...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- atricaudatus, pp. 151–152 + Plate 31, figures 88B & 88C). Gloyd HK (1936). "The cane-brake rattlesnake". Copeia 1935 (4): 175–178. Holt EG (1924). "Additional records...
- The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland...
- Liochlorophis vernalis Smooth Green snake Crotalus horridus Timber Rattlesnake / cane-brake rattlesnake Venomous Carphophis amoenus amoenus Eastern Worm Snake Indotyphlops...
- clear stream of water, at the temperature of 84°, which flows from a canebrake, near the base of the mountain. It is soft yet brackish, and there is...
- Waters "Camptown Races" or "Gwine to Run All Night" 1850 F. D. Benteen "Cane Brake Jig" or "Plantation Jig" 1853 Firth, Pond & Co. "Choral Harp" 1863 Horace...