cane brake

plural cane brakes · alternative canebrake

1. A dense thicket of sugar-canes or bamboos.

   But the long cactus-strewn levels still stretched away, empty and bare, to the distant line of the cane-brake.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

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   ‘Well, one Sunday morning, I took ‘Brown Betsy,’ my old two shooter, and all the dogs, and off I sot for the cane brake in the hollow, over back of Ike Hamberlin’s, the steam doctor’ — for I know’d Ike would be tarnation riley if I kilt a bar any where close to his clearin, and that made me sorter ambitious like.’

   1849 November 10, The Spirit of the Times, New York, page 542, column 3

   I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain Fightin' and trouble are my middle name I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion

   1947, Merle Travis, Sixteen Tons