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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Bird Fancier :: Bird fancier () One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
Carucage :: Carucage (n.) The act of plowing.
Chaffinch :: Chaffinch (n.) A bird of Europe (Fringilla coelebs), having a variety of very sweet songs, and highly valued as a cage bird; -- called also copper finch..
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..
Cage :: Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Birdcage :: Birdcage (n.) A cage for confining 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..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A place of confinement for malefactor.
Boskage :: Boskage (n.) Same as Boscage.
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
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.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase..
Muzzle :: Muzzle (v. i.) A fastening or covering (as a band or cage) for the mouth of an animal, to prevent eating or vicious biting..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The catcher's wire mask.
Tumbril :: Tumbril (n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
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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