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Webster 1913 Edition
Cage
Cage
,Noun.
1.
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. Cowper.
2.
A place of confinement for malefactors
Shak.
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a
Nor iron bars a
cage
. Lovelace.
3.
(Carp.)
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it;
as, the
. cage
of a staircaseGwilt.
4.
(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.
5.
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
6.
(Mining)
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
7.
(Baseball)
The catcher’s wire mask.
Cage
(kāj)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Caged
(kājd)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Caging
.] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
“Caged and starved to death.” Cowper.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cage
CAGE
,Verb.
T.