Definitions for: Cage

[n] a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
[n] an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept
[n] the net that is the goal in ice hockey
[n] United States composer of avant-garde music (1912-1992)
[n] something that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
[v] confine in a cage; "The animal was caged"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

2. A place of confinement for malefactors --Shak.

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a
cage. --Lovelace.

3. (Carp.) An outer framework of timber, inclosing something
within it; as, the cage of a staircase. --Gwilt.

4. (Mach.)
(a) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece,
as a ball valve.
(b) A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and
pipes.

5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or
elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

6. (Mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting
whim.

7. (Baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

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.

Synonyms: batting cage, cage in, coop, John Cage, John Milton Cage Jr.

See Also: baseball equipment, birdcage, composer, confine, constraint, detain, enclosure, hutch, iron cage, net, restraint, squirrel cage

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