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Cage

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

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Birdcage 76% connected

A cage for confining birds.

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Hutch 76% connected

To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winter quarters.

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Confine 76% connected

To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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Constraint 76% connected

The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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Detain 76% connected

To keep back or from; to withhold.

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Enclosure 76% connected

Inclosure. See Inclosure.

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Net 76% connected

To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Restraint 76% connected

The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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Coop 92% connected

A barrel or cask for liquor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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