cage Definition

cage
noun

1. An enclosure, sometimes portable and usually with bars, in which captive birds and animals are kept.

Thesaurus: pen, enclosure, coop, aviary, corral, pound.
2. In a mine: a lift which transports mineworkers up and down a shaft.
3. Any structure resembling a cage.

Example: the ribcage

verb

caged, caging
1. To put them in a cage; to imprison or confine them.

Form: cage someone in (also)

Derivative: caged
adj

Idiom: rattle someone's cage

To provoke their anger.

Etymology: 13c: French, from Latin cavea hollow place, from cavus hollow.