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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Cage :: Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals..
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets.
Car :: Car (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc..
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..
Bird Fancier :: Bird fancier () One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
Bosky :: Bosky (a.) Caused by boscage.
Birdseed :: Birdseed (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds..
Volery :: Volery (n.) A large bird cage; an aviary.
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..
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..
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..
Soken :: Soken (n.) A district held by socage.
Inmew :: Inmew (v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage..
Car :: Car (n.) The cage of a lift or elevator.
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..
Tumbril :: Tumbril (n.) A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep..
Socmanry :: Socmanry (n.) Tenure by socage.
Brocage :: Brocage (n.) See Brokkerage.
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..
Sembling :: Sembling (n.) The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
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