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n.
A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
n.
Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.
n.
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
imp. & p. p.
of Cage
v. t.
To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.
n.
A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
n.
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
n. & v.
To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
n.
A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
n.
A large bird cage; an aviary.
n.
A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
n.
A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
a.
Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.
v. i.
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
n.
A coop or cage for hens.
n.
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
n.
A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
n.
An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.
n.
A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
n.
The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
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