| Cage 1. (n.) A box or enclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. 2. (n.) A place of confinement for malefactors 3. (n.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. 4. (n.) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. 5. (n.) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes. 6. (n.) The box, bucket, or enclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cage like structure moving in a shaft. 7. (n.) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. 8. (n.) The catcher's wire mask. 9. (v. i.) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. Thesaurus Entries beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, bound, box in, box up, chamber, check, cloister, close in, compass, confine, constrain, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, cork up, corral, crate, crib, detain, drive, drove, encage, encircle, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, fence in, goad, hedge in, hell, hem in, herd, hold, hold in custody, hold in restraint, house in, hutch, immure, impound, imprison, in, incarcerate, include, inhibit, jail, keep in, keep in custody, keep in detention, kennel, lash, leaguer, limbo, mew, mew up, pen, pen in, pen up, penfold, pinfold, place of confinement, pocket, pound, prick, punch cattle, purgatory, quarantine, rail in, restrain, restrict, ride herd on, round up, seal up, shackle, shepherd, shrine, shut in, shut up, spur, stable, surround, wall in, whip, wrangle, wrap, yard, yard up |