CAGE

Definitions

1. 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. 2. A place of confinement for malefactors Shak. Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Lovelace.
3. 3. An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt.
4. 4. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
5. 5. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
6. 6. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
7. 7. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
8. 8. The catcher's wire mask.