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cage

  [keyj] noun, verb, caged, cag⋅ing.
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–noun
1. a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
2. anything that confines or imprisons; prison.
3. something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.
4. the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.
5. Mining. an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.
6. any skeleton framework.
7. Baseball. a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.
8. a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.
9. Basketball Older Use. the basket.
10. a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.
11. Ordnance. a steel framework for supporting guns.
12. Machinery. retainer 1 (def. 3).
–verb (used with object)
13. to put or confine in or as if in a cage.
14. Sports. to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME < OF < L cavea birdcage, equiv. to cav(us) hollow + -ea, fem. of -eus adj. suffix

Related forms:
cageless, adjective
cagelike, adjective

Synonyms:
1. pen, coop, enclosure, pound.
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cage   (kāj)   
n.  
  1. A structure for confining birds or animals, enclosed on at least one side by a grating of wires or bars that lets in air and light.
  2. A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners.
  3. An enclosing openwork structure: placed a protective cage over the sapling; a bank teller's cage.
  4. A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework.
  5. An elevator car.
    1. Baseball A large wire screen placed behind home plate to stop balls in batting practice.
    2. Sports A goal, as in hockey or soccer, made of a net attached to a frame .
tr.v.   caged, cag·ing, cag·es
To put or confine in or as if in a cage. See Synonyms at enclose.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cavea.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Caged

Caged\ (k[=a]jd), a. Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." --Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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