1. Noun
A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
2. Noun
A place of confinement for malefactors
3. Noun
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
4. Noun
A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
5. Noun
A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
6. Noun
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
7. Noun
The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
8. Noun
The catcher's wire mask.
9. Verb
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
10. Noun
an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
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