Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cage"
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.
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) 1.7 (wn)
cage
n 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: the net that is 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}]
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