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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Boscage :: Boscage (n.) Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood..
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..
Amadavat :: Amadavat (n.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill..
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
Caged :: Caged (imp. & p. p.) of Cag.
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..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Boscage :: Boscage (n.) A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
Cage :: Cage (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
Cage :: Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals..
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..
Hencoop :: Hencoop (n.) A coop or cage for hens.
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.) A place of confinement for malefactor.
Cage :: Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..
Incagement :: Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage..
Carucage :: Carucage (n.) The act of plowing.
Blocage :: Blocage (n.) The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry..
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..
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