The act of beating or striking someone with a cane as punishment, or in weaving, the process of threading cane or rattan.
From cane (a stick or rod) + -ing (forming gerunds/present participles), dating back to when canes were common implements for corporal punishment.
Caning was so normalized in schools that it shaped entire cultures—in Singapore, Malaysia, and historically in Britain, generations of students feared the cane, yet recent psychology shows it harms more than it teaches.
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