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In North America, where walking sticks with curved tops are called "canes", but are most often made of wood, "caning" may refer to beating someone with a stick heavier than that used for corporal punishment.
Walking canes
Canes may be finished into walking sticks. In North America, walking sticks typically have tops curved like judicial canes, and even when made of wood, they are called "canes." Thus in 1856, when Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was "caned", he was beaten with a wooden walking cane that splintered.