Outside of our house, I use a ____ to walk; inside, I touch walls.

noun

1. Rattan
2. A stick typically of wood or metal with a usually curved handle at one end that is grasped to provide stability in walking or standing
3. A rod or stick used for flogging
4. A tiny glass rod used in decorative glasswork (as in millefiori and paperweights)

verb

1. To beat with a cane

   "he sat in a professor's chair and caned sophomores for blowing spitballs"

2. To weave or furnish with cane

   "cane the seat of a chair"

noun

1. Any of a Italian breed of large, muscular dogs having a short, dense, stiff coat and a large head with a short, broad, square muzzle and powerful jaws

noun

1. Sugar from sugarcane

noun

1. A large, brownish, poisonous toad (Rhinella marina synonym Bufo marinus) native to Central and South America, Mexico, and extreme southern Texas and introduced into other tropical and subtropical areas (such as Australia) where it has become an invasive species

   "Cane toads are seen as a major threat to biodiversity, not only because they voraciously out-compete some native species for food and consume others, but also because their skin toxins are thought to kill carnivorous predators which mistake them for local amphibians."

noun

1. Dieffenbachia

noun

1. The often mottled, slender wood stem of an Asian rattan palm (especially Calamus rotang) used especially for walking sticks and umbrella handles

noun

1. A cane in which a sword blade is concealed

noun

1. A stick of hard red and white candy with a curve at the top

noun

1. A form of punishment in which a person is hit with a cane or stick

   "In the past, some teachers would resort to the cane when students misbehaved."