Definition of "cage" []

• A structure for confining birds or animals, enclosed on at least one side by a grating of wires or bars that lets in air and light. (noun)
• A barred room or fenced enclosure for confining prisoners. (noun)
• An enclosing openwork structure: placed a protective cage over the sapling; a bank teller's cage. (noun)
• A skeletal support, as for a building; a framework. (noun)
• An elevator car. (noun)

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• "She observed that the pair which he then saw building their nest in her cage, were a male and female, who had been hatched and reared in that very _cage_, and were not in existence when the mossy cradle was fabricated in which _they_ first saw light. ""
• "For one, the egg industry and others had demonstrated the power of the label cage free, yet Hudson Valley had done nothing to get the word out that its ducks were not in cages."
• "Marécage is French for swamp, so the title translates as The flower of the swamp, a head."