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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

... by the main path to the terrace, opposite the Llama House is a large octagon summer cage for Maccaws where red and yellow, blue and yellow, and red and blue species, are usually kept; with cockatoos. In winter they are removed to some of ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 573, October 27, 1832 • Various

... character: and the poor girl's joy in being able to utter all the nothings she has painfully hoarded while separated from her coterie, gives to her now the wild transport of a bird just let loose from a cage. I rejoice to see the little creature at liberty, for what can be so melancholy as a forced appearance of thinking, where there are no materials ...

— Cecilia vol. 2 - Memoirs of an Heiress • Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d'Arblay)

... about a Sammyadd unless they'd seen it? She'll think we're pretending. Or else she'll think we're raving mad, and then we shall be sent to Bedlam. How would you like it?' - he turned suddenly on the miserable Jane - 'how would you like it, to be shut up in an iron cage with bars and padded walls, and nothing to do but stick straws in your hair all day, and listen to the howlings and ravings of the other maniacs? Make up your minds to it, all of you. It's no ...

— Five Children and It • E. Nesbit

... at first; but hearing the breakers roar, Thitherward shaped his way, and came at length to the shore. Sound-limbed he was: dry-eyed; but smarted in every part; And the mighty cage of his ribs heaved on his straining heart With sorrow and rage. And "Fools!" he cried, "fools of Vaiau, Heads of swine—gluttons—Alas! and where are they now? Those that I played with, those that ...

— Ballads • Robert Louis Stevenson

... I paid in the night-time to the Hotel de Chevreuse, I conversed with none but canons and cures. I was the object of raillery both at Court and at the Palace of Conde; and because I had set up a bird-cage at a window, it became a common jest that "the Coadjutor whistled to the linnets." The disposition of Paris, however, made amends for the raillery of the Court. I found myself very secure, while other people were very uneasy. The cures, parish priests, and even the mendicants, informed themselves ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

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