Definition of cage

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Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

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Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..
Aviary :: Aviary (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house..
Free :: Free (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage..
Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood..
Cage :: Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals..
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..
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..
Birdseed :: Birdseed (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds..
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..
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..
Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
Cresset :: Cresset (n.) A small furnace or iron cage to hold fire for charring the inside of a cask, and making the staves flexible..
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..
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
Boskiness :: Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Waxbill :: Waxbill (n.) Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds..
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