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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caged} (k[=a]jd); p.
pr & vb n. {Caging}.]
To confine in or as in a cage; to shut up or confine.
``Caged and starved to death.'' --Cowper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cage \Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr L. cavea cavity, cage, fr cavus
hollow. Cf {Cave}, n., {Cajole}, {Gabion}.]
1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood
or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. --Cowper.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cage
n 1: made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are
kept [syn: {coop}]
2: something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts
movement
3: the goal in ice hockey
4: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls
during batting practice [syn: {batting cage}]
v : confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: {cage in}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
CAGE
Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Cage
(Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered basket" in Amos
8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after
being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek
_phulake_, properly a prison or place of confinement.
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