cage /kāj/

1. A compartment or enclosure, usu made from bars and wires, for confining captive animals and birds
2. A prison
3. A frame with a platform or platforms used in hoisting in a vertical shaft, eg in a mine or lift
4. A framework that encloses, protects or supports
5. Any structure resembling a cage in function
6. A structure of steel supports and netting to protect garden fruit and vegetables from birds
7. A squirrel's nest (dialect)
8. A goal, consisting of a frame with a net attached, as in ice hockey
9. An enclosed area used for batting practice (baseball)

To imprison in a cage

caged adjective

Confined

cageˈling noun

A bird that is or has been kept in a cage

cageˈ-bird noun

A bird of a kind habitually kept in a cage

cageˈ-cup noun

A kind of glass bowl of late Roman times, with a filigree-type glass decoration attached to the bowl by tiny struts (also diatrēˈtum)

cage fighter noun

cage fighting noun

A form of ultimate fighting (qv under ultimate) in which the opponents fight inside a wire enclosure

cageˈwork noun

Open-work like the bars of a cage

cage in (usu figurative)

To imprison

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