A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. Cowper.
A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Lovelace.
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt.
A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
The catcher's wire mask.
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death." Cowper.
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