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

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1. \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.
   

2. \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.
   

Early system on IBM 704. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).

(Heb. kelub', Jer. 5:27, marg. "coop;" rendered "basket" in Amos 8:1), a basket of wicker-work in which birds were placed after being caught. In Rev. 18:2 it is the rendering of the Greek _phulake_, properly a prison or place of confinement.