Definition of cage

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Cage (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve..

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Cage :: Cage (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
Inmew :: Inmew (v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage..
Uncage :: Uncage (v. t.) To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Carucage :: Carucage (n.) A tax on every plow or plowland.
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..
Parrot :: Parrot (n.) Any species of Psittacus, Chrysotis, Pionus, and other genera of the family Psittacidae, as distinguished from the parrakeets, macaws, and lories. They have a short rounded or even tail, and often a naked space on the cheeks. The gray parrot, or jako (P. erithacus) of Africa (see Jako), and the species of Amazon, or green, parrots (Chrysotis) of America, are examples. Many species, as cage birds, readily learn to imitate sounds, and to repeat words and phrases..
Socager :: Socager (n.) A tennant by socage; a socman.
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood..
Volery :: Volery (n.) A large bird cage; an aviary.
Alpia :: Alpia (n.) The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds..
Boskiness :: Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky..
Hencoop :: Hencoop (n.) A coop or cage for hens.
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..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Meute :: Meute (n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes..
Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..
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