cage

cage has 15 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
• n.. A place of confinement for malefactors
• n.. An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as, the cage of a staircase.
• n.. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.
• n.. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
• n.. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.
• n.. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
• n.. The catcher's wire mask.
• v. i.. To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
• n.. a movable screen placed behind home base to catch balls during batting practice
• n.. an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
• n.. the net that is the goal in ice hockey