Definition of cage

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

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Cage :: Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..
Carriage :: Carriage (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage..
Rape :: Rape (n.) A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds..
Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..
Socman :: Socman (n.) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
Aviary :: Aviary (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house..
Piccage :: Piccage (n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
Cage :: Cage (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
Mew :: Mew (n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural..
Uncage :: Uncage (v. t.) To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage..
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..
Pen :: Pen (n. & v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass..
Bird Fancier :: Bird fancier () One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
Soken :: Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Whirligig :: Whirligig (n.) A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Myna :: Myna (n.) Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird..
Alpia :: Alpia (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds..
Socage :: Socage (n.) A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent..
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