cagern.
1. One who encloses in a cage. rare.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > action of > one who confines
mewer1625
incarcerator1820
cager1889
1889 R. Browning Asolando 5 Boy-Cupid's exemplary catcher and cager.
2. An operative who attends to a cage (in various trades).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other specific tools or equipment
presser1545
stamper1556
blocker1609
benchman1658
engineman1777
squaremanc1790
kettleman1833
vice-man1837
poleman1859
tackle-man1859
ladler1875
sand-blaster?1881
ticket chopper1898
cager1908
gadgeteer1926
paint sprayer1928
1908 Daily Chron. 24 Apr. 7/5 The cager was..engaged in another part of the mine.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §§043, 056, 339, 399.
Draft additions September 2006
Sport (North American colloquial). A basketball player. Cf. cage n. Additions c.In quot. 1905 in plural as the name of a specific basketball team.
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1905 Boston Globe 17 Jan. 11/7 In the first game of the scrub basket-ball series at Harvard yesterday afternoon the Cagers defeated the Loose Screws, 20 to 0.
1912 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 20 Nov. 10/1 High cagers to have short season... The Sandusky High School will have but two basket ball games at home.
1922 Ardmore (Oklahoma) Daily Press 1 Jan. 1/6 Loco High School will return to Wilson next Friday when a game with the Wilson High cagers will occur.
1990 Inside Sports Dec. 7/2 Charlie Vincent..analyzes five players who come closest to being the ideal cager.
2005 Michigan Chron. (Electronic ed.) 14–20 Dec. c7 Primas was the second Black PSL cager to make All-American in the college ranks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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