'Cage' definitions:

Definition of 'cage'

(from WordNet)
noun
An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop]
noun
Something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
noun
United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992) [syn: Cage, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.]
noun
The net that is the goal in ice hockey
noun
A movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice [syn: batting cage, cage]
verb
Confine in a cage; "The animal was caged" [syn: cage, cage in]

Definition of 'Cage'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Cage'

From: GCIDE
  • Cage \Cage\, n. [F. cage, fr. L. cavea cavity, cage, fr. cavus hollow. Cf. Cave, n., Cajole, Gabion.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. [1913 Webster]
  • In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. --Lovelace. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'cage'

From: 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.