rotan

noun /ˈɹotɑn/

1. A long rattan cane used for corporal punishment.

   Two boys, aged 14 and 11, were each sentenced to three strokes of the light rotan at Kluang for stealing duck eggs from Loh Wee Seng.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Malay rotan (“cane”), doublet of rattan.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry rotan (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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