cage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A container made of bars or wire for keeping animals or birds.

   We keep a small bird in a cage at home.

2. 2
   verb

   To put or keep an animal in a cage.

   The lion was caged at the back of the zoo.

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

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