vbl. sb. [f. CANE v. + -ING1.] The action of CANE v.; a beating with a cane.

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1715.  De Foe, Fam. Instruct., I. viii. (1841), I. 150. I owe him a caning for all this.

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1871.  Morley, Voltaire (1886), 53. Having a caning inflicted.

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