Cage

(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.

The term so rendered in (Jeremiah 5:27) is more properly a trap in which decoy birds were placed. In (Revelation 18:2) the (Greek term means a prison.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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. An outer framework of timber, inclosing something within it; as the cage of a staircase. Gwilt.

4. A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

5. A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.

6. The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft.

7. The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.

8. The catcher's wire mask.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. "Caged and starved to death." Cowper.