Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bird kept as a pet in a cage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bird kept in a cage; a cage-bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncommon A
bird that is keptconfined in acage .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Or am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage (as a home not to be urged on him), and means to take his time of coming, if he comes at all?
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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A bird sat its perch and sang that intricate, haunting repertoire of melodies for which men had created it; yet this bird was no cageling, it had a place in the woods.
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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A bird sat its perch and sang that intricate, haunting repertoire of melodies for which men had created it; yet this bird was no cageling, it had a place in the woods.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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Or am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage (as a home not to be urged on him), and means to take his time of coming, if he comes at all?
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Magistrate decrees logodaedaelian hoosegow cageling may retain his thesaurus.
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