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Examples
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The rotan is a long (perhaps six or seven foot), flexible bamboo cane.
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The rotan is a long so it can be swished with great force hearty bamboo.
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I'm not saying that we should "rotan" these fellows.
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At the far end, that's Bishop Anthony with that funny crooked rotan which is the staff used by shepherds to herd their sheep.
The Obnoxious 5xmom 2008
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"Lesser" crimes, like robbery and rape, for example, attract the rotan.
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If you were sentenced to, for example, eight strokes of the rotan, it is unlikely that it would all be executed in one session.
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Understory includes palms such as Arenga obtusifolia and rotan Calamus sp.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia 2009
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Maybe this country should adopt the use of the rotan.
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Oh, Plankton, I didn't mean to suggest that murderers get the rotan in Singapore!
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The rotan is so painful that they strap on special pads to protect the kidneys of the prisoner.
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