OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10337

cage

/keɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gayola • jaula
An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
We keep a bird in a cage.
cabina
The passenger compartment of a lift.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 10338

cage

/keɪd͡ʒ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
enjaular
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
And the row of human captors, ever leering, They who caged me, Know their power and gloat on my captivity.
Laying out the zoo on horseback, he went about making plans to combine his scrubby mesas and canyons with moats, and thereby eliminate caging many large animals—a revolutionary adv…