n. A box-like receptacle or inclosure for confining birds or wild beasts, made with open spaces on one or more sides, or on all sides, and often also at the top, by the use of osiers, wires, slats, or rods or bars of iron, according to the required strength.n. A prison or place of confinement for malefactors; a part of a building or of a room separated from the rest by bars, within which to confine persons under arrest, as sick or wounded prisoners in a hospital.n. A skeleton framework of any kind.n. A cup with a glass bottom and cover between which is a drop of water containing animalcules to be examined under a microscope.n. The large wheel of a whim about which the hoisting-rope is wound.n. A name sometimes given to a chapel inclosed with a latticework or grating.To confine in a cage; shut up or confine: as, “caged nightingales,”To make like a cage or place of confinement: as, “the caged cloister,”n. A drum or cylinder in a cotton-scutching machine, covered with wire netting, against which the cotton is thrown in the form of a sheet, the dust being removed by a suction-fan.n. In base-ball, the mask worn by the catcher.