Cage /(?)/

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.

2. A place of confinement for malefactors

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

3. An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase. (Carp.)
4. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve. (Mach.)
5. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
6. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim. (Mining)
7. The catcher's wire mask. (Baseball)

imp. & p. p. Caged; p. pr. & vb. n. Caging

1. To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.