rattan
See also: Rattan and råttan
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay rotan.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹəˈtæn/
- Rhymes: -æn
Noun
rattan (countable and uncountable, plural rattans)
- Any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus.
- (uncountable) The plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.
- (by extension) A cane made from this material.
- 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
- He who first acts as striker asks the other how many blows of the rattan he will bear on his forearm without crying out.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
- 2008, Jean-François Bayart, Andrew Brown, Global Subjects: A Political Critique of Globalization
- […] the rattan is still a valued instrument of discipline […]
- 1906, Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden, Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula
Translations
climbing palm
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material
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Further reading
rattan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Calamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams
- Tartan, tantra, tartan