cage-workn.
1. Open work like the bars of a cage; also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > essential elements > mere essential elements
cage-work1635
bone1647
skeleton1647
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework
frame1558
truss1654
cage-work1756
lathing1756
grillage1776
trestle1796
trestlework1853
hog frame1875
truss-work1884
steel framework1906
space frame1912
diagrid1943
1635 A. Gil Sacred Philos. Holy Script. ii. xxiv. 173 If this foundation of the mixture of the two natures in Christ bee taken away, all the Cage-worke of the Theodosians, that the Mediatour is mortall, and of the Armenians, that hee could not suffer, must needes bee rotten and unable to stand.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 135 Malmeudy..consists of about a thousand houses, mostly of cage-work.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun]
cage1555
cage-worka1618
dead-work1653
quick-work1711
floatage1839
a1618 W. Raleigh Observ. Royal Navy (1650) 15 But men of better sort..would be glad to find more steadinesse and lesse tottering Cadge worke.
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum Cage-work, the uppermost carved Works of a Ship's Hull.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xx The English fashion was to heighten the ship..also by stockades (‘close-fights and cage-work’) on the poop and fore-castle, thus giving to the men a shelter.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cage-wrock, an old term for a ship's upper works.
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