canebrake

[ keyn-breyk ]

noun

1. a thicket of canes.

canebrake

/ ˈkeɪnˌbreɪk /

noun

1. a thicket of canes

Word History and Origins

Origin of canebrake¹

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75; cane + brake ²

Example Sentences

On the edge of the canebrake a thicket of papaw and blackberry vines added rankness and forest secrecy.

From Project Gutenberg

Presently they came to a species of canebrake, very dense and high; there was no green in sight, only the canes.

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Now and then they passed thickets of canebrake, and once, at the side of a stream, they came to a salt "lick."

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The grass was high and thick and the canebrake was so dense that passage through it seemed impossible.

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Then it was covered with magnificent forest and now they threaded their way through the dense canebrake.

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