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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Free :: Free (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage..
Socmanry :: Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..
Boskiness :: Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky..
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Caused by boscage.
Hencoop :: Hencoop (n.) A coop or cage for hens.
Bockland :: Bockland (n.) Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Rosella :: Rosella (n.) A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow..
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..
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..
Mew :: Mew (v. t.) To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure..
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
Car :: Car (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc..
Carriage :: Carriage (n.) A frame or cage in which something is carried or supported; as, a bell carriage..
Meute :: Meute (n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
Boskage :: Boskage (n.) Same as Boscage.
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..
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