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noun

Cage n.

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. "In his cage, like parrot fine and gay."

A place of confinement for malefactors "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage."

(Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.

(Mach.)

(a)

A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

(b)

A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.

The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

(Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

(Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

verb

Cage v. i. (past & past part. caged; pres. part. caging) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death."

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Etymology of 'Cage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cage" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Spanish speech, The bird in Spanish speech replied; Flapp'd round the cage with joyous screech, ...

— English Songs and Ballads • Various

... persistently. If he were walking off his supper, as most of those seated aft would have suggested, the performance was not particularly interesting. The limit and rapidity of the walk resembled the tramp of a confined animal, exercising its last meal. But when one stands in front of the lion's cage, and sees that restless and tireless stride, one cannot but wonder how much of it is due to the last shin-bone, and how much to the wild and powerful nature under the tawny skin. The question occurs because the nature and antecedents of the lion are known. For this same reason the yachters were ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... Buddhists still resort to the incantations of the "devil dancers" in case of danger and emergency[1]; a Singhalese, rather than put a Cobra de Capello to death, encloses the reptile in a wicker cage, and sets it adrift on the nearest stream; and in the island of Nainativoe, to the south-west of Jaffa, there was till recently a little temple, dedicated to the goddess Naga Tambiran, in which consecrated serpents were tenderly reared by the Pandarams, ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

... you! Yes, and we are going to keep her in this pretty cage till we can both fly off together. I say, Jill, where shall we be in our classes when we do get back?" and Jack's merry face ...

— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott

... The wagons had signs, and I learned to read that way after father taught me my letters off the red and yellow posters. First word I knew was lion, 'cause I was always goin' to see old Jubal in his cage. Father was real proud when I read it right off. I can ...

— Under the Lilacs • Louisa May Alcott

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