It can also refer to a cane made from whangee.

He carried his whangee walking stick at port arms.

His collection included a valuable holder that had a spiral of diamonds set in gold over the black lacquered whangee.

Charlie Chaplin's character, The Little Tramp, is famously known for his whangee cane.

John Steed, the dapper secret agent from television's The Avengers, was known for carrying an umbrella with a whangee handle.

Terry-Thomas, the well-known British comedic actor, habitually used an 8" long custom black lacquered whangee cigarette holder.

The author, P.G. Wodehouse, does not elaborate on the meaning of whangee, assuming that any of his audience would immediately know to what it referred.

After Gosset's tale of the fork wielding moths, Jonathan wouldn't have been half surprised to see that the mouse wore an overcoat and carried a whangee.

It was slightly outré because it was made of lacquered, black whangee ... with a gold band twisting neatly round it".

Bertie Wooster in The Inimitable Jeeves says, "Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest gloves, and the old green Homburg.

The firm of Dunhill created custom smoking pipes and cigarette holders out of whangee, lacquering the surface of the plant stems and adding a black plastic or Bakelite mouthpiece.

With handles of maple, hickory, Malacca cane, rosewood, whangee, cherry or furzewood and with a collar in gold, silver or gold plate, the owner can spot his own in a moment in an umbrella stand.

Steed's umbrella, with its distinctive whangee handle, was known for containing a sword, though there were other versions, including one that featured a sound recorder and one with a camera hidden under the handle for covert photography ("The Cybernauts"), and one that contained measures of whisky.