cane piece

English

Noun

cane piece (plural cane pieces)

  1. (now historical) A field of sugarcane.
    • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 172:
      After breakfast we were conducted over several cane pieces, viewing that luxuriant and useful plant in its different stages.
    • 1861, Anthony Trollope, Tales of All Nations:
      He took Mr. Leslie through his mills and over his cane-pieces.
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