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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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"Cage" Quotes from Famous Books

... the boys decided to return to their camp. It was arranged that the old hunter should depart for town at once, find out where the circus was, and inform the proprietor that the lion was found. Then, when a circus representative appeared, Sanborn was to meet him, arrange to cage the lion, and meet the boys at their camp, the location of which they described in such a manner that it could not be missed. Sanborn said the circus manager had found out that the three discharged employees ...

— Out with Gun and Camera • Ralph Bonehill

... obtained many small brownish ducks with exquisitely shaded coats. The snake bird, with its long, straight, sharp beak and long, thin neck, she said was dangerous, and she teased him to thrust his head through the rails. Finally she took from a cage two musangs which were resting and pressed them against her chest. They were as tame as cats. It was curious to note that when walking they held their tails so that a loop was formed ...

— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz

... was Don Tarquinio's mental comment as the door closed on Egbert's retreat. Then he lifted his velvet forepaws in the air and leapt lightly on to a bookshelf immediately under the bullfinch's cage. It was the first time he had seemed to notice the bird's existence, but he was carrying out a long-formed theory of action with the precision of mature deliberation. The bullfinch, who had fancied himself ...

— Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches • Saki (H.H. Munro)

... odds, and stole away from him in the dark without beat of drum. Maurice entered Hoogstraaten, was received with rapture by the Spanish and Italian veterans, and excited the astonishment of all by the coolness with which he entered into the cage of these dangerous serpents—as they called themselves—handling them, caressing them, and being fondled by them in return. But the veterans knew a soldier when they saw one, and their hearts warmed to the prince—heretic though he were—more than they had ever done to the unfrocked bishop who, ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... experience, for it seized the toad by one of its legs and drew it out of the hole. The instincts of even the higher animals are often followed in a senseless or purposeless manner: the weaver-bird will perseveringly wind threads through the bars of its cage, as if building a nest: a squirrel will pat nuts on a wooden floor, as if he had just buried them in the ground: a beaver will cut up logs of wood and drag them about, though there is no water to dam up; and ...

— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin

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