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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

... provisions of their own, and comets have orbits to which the laws of the stars do not apply. For all ordinary people, this thick candle-end is a delicious substitute for the ghastly rush-light in its chequered cage, which threw strange figures on wall and curtain, and gave nervous women the megrims. But nothing more is known of Belmonts or night-lights; their birthplace, and the manner of their making, are alike hidden from the outer world; the uninitiated accept the ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 - Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 • Various

... the Prince was now concealed was a very curious hut contrived by Cluny in one of the inmost recesses of the hills. It was called 'The Cage,' and was placed in a little thicket on the rocky slope of a hill. The walls were formed by actual growing trees with stakes planted between them, the whole woven together by ropes of heather and birch. Till you were close to the hut it looked merely like a thick ...

— The True Story Book • Andrew Lang

... then, preachers quite commonly are different on Monday. As we went from cage to cage, he said he had read how boa-constrictors eat, and wouldn't I show him ...

— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp

... joy of Age: The sun is dear even when long shadows fall. Forth to the sunlight the old man doth crawl, Enlivened like the bird in his poor cage. Close by the door, no further, in his chair The old man sits; and sitteth there His soul within him, like a child that lies Half dreaming, with his half-shut eyes, At close of a long afternoon in summer; High ruins round him, ancient ruins, ...

— A Hidden Life and Other Poems • George MacDonald

... the King. But the King said, "You cannot yet marry my daughter. If you wish to do so, you must fight with my two demons, and kill them." The King a long time ago had caught two demons, and then, as he did not know what to do with them, he had shut them up in a cage. He was afraid to let them loose for fear they would eat up all the people in his country; and he did not know how to kill them. So all the Rajahs and Rajahs' sons who wanted to marry the Princess ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) • Various

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