Definition of cage

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Cage (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine..

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Caged :: Caged (imp. & p. p.) of Cag.
Brocage :: Brocage (n.) See Brokkerage.
Cage :: Cage (n.) A place of confinement for malefactor.
Inmew :: Inmew (v. t.) To inclose, as in a mew or cage..
Socman :: Socman (n.) One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager.
Uncage :: Uncage (v. t.) To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage..
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..
Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..
Encaged :: Encaged (imp. & p. p.) of Encag.
Bird Fancier :: Bird fancier () One who has for sale the various kinds of birds which are kept in cages.
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..
Indicator :: Indicator (n.) A telltale connected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc..
Encage :: Encage (v. t.) To confine in a cage; to coop up.
Crib :: Crib (v. t.) To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
Incagement :: Incagement (n.) Confinement in, or as in, cage..
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..
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..
Birdseed :: Birdseed (n.) Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feeding caged birds..
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..
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..
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