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Cage is British slang for a prison cell.
Rattle someone's cage is slang for to provoke, disturb, rouse.
Caboose
Specifically a masthead constructed with sides and sometimes a roof to shelter the lookouts from the weather, generally by whaling vessels, this has become a generic term for what is properly called masthead. The term is derived from the Norse who carried cages of crows or ravens at the masthead. When the ship lost sight of land, they would release one of the birds and then sail in the same direction as the bird toward the nearest land.
Stock car. Also called cow crate
Used by some southern people to refer to black people. May reference the type of cage used to keep small animals.
 Singing (as of caged songbirds)
Private car
Get upset
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A derisive term for a bustle. Also called a "bird cage†or "canary cage.â€
A direct line between two points. When lost or unsure of their position in coastal waters, Viking ships would release a caged crow. The crow would fly straight towards the nearest land thus giving the vessel some sort of a navigational fix. The tallest lookout platform on a ship came to be know as the crow's nest.
Bunkhouse.
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n.
A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
n.
An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
n.
A name given to a variety or to varieties of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.
n.
An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.
n.
A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
n.
Any one of numerous species of finchlike birds belonging to Estrelda and allied genera, native of Asia, Africa, and Australia. The bill is large, conical, and usually red in color, resembling sealing wax. Several of the species are often kept as cage birds.
n.
A mediaeval instrument for punishing petty offenders, being a kind of wooden cage turning on a pivot, in which the offender was whirled round with great velocity.
v. t.
To loose, or release, from, or as from, a cage.
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A kind of basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
n.
The practice of attracting the males of Lepidoptera or other insects by exposing the female confined in a cage.
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To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up, or shut in; to inclose.
a.
Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison.
n.
A large bird cage; an aviary.
v. i.
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
n.
The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
n.
A beautiful Australian parrakeet (Platycercus eximius) often kept as a cage bird. The head and back of the neck are scarlet, the throat is white, the back dark green varied with lighter green, and the breast yellow.
n.
A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
n.
A coop or cage for hens.
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