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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cage \Cage\, noun [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus hollow. Cf. {Cave}, noun, {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.
2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak.
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. --Lovelace.
3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt.
4. (Mach.) (a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. (b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cage \Cage\ (k[=a]j), verb (used without an object) [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cage
noun
1: an enclosure 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: United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn: {John Cage}, {John Milton Cage Jr.}]
4: the net that is the goal in ice hockey
5: a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice [syn: {batting cage}]
verb: confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: {cage in}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "cage": beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, crate, crib, detain, drive, drove, encage, encircle, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, fence in, goad, hedge in, hell, hem in, herd, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, house in, hutch, immure, impound, imprison, in, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lash, leaguer, limbo, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pen up, penfold, pinfold, place of confinement, pocket, pound, prick, punch cattle, purgatory, quarantine, rail in, restrain, restrict, ride herd on, round up, seal up, shackle, shepherd, shrine, shut in, shut up, spur, stable, surround, wall in, whip, wrangle, wrap, yard, yard up
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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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