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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 (kāj), v. i.
[imp. & p. p. Caged (kājd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Caging.] To confine
in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged
and starved to death." Cowper.

Caged (kājd), a.
Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or
prison. "The caged cloister." Shak.

Cage"ling (kāj"l&ibreve;ng),
n. [Cage + -ling] A bird
confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic]
Tennyson.

||Ca"git (kā"j&ibreve;t), n.
(Zoöl) A kind of parrot, of a beautiful green
color, found in the Philippine Islands.


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