Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Openwork like that of a cage.
- noun The carved upper works of a ship's hull, especially on the poop and forecastle.
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- noun A
cage or cage-likestructure .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Plantation "of James I., had been turned over exclusively to British settlers, whose" cagework "houses, and four acres of garden ground each, had elicited the approval of the surveyor Pynnar, twenty years before.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Plantation "of James I., had been turned over exclusively to British settlers, whose" cagework "houses, and four acres of garden ground each, had elicited the approval of the surveyor Pynnar, twenty years before.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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What delight is there in a cagework (of bones, full) of feces,
Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior - Shantideva ��� 8. Far-Reaching Mental Stability Shantideva 2004
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Great gleaming metal ribs stretched from its titanium nosecap to the more intricate cagework of the tail fins.
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The shuttle's nose grated along the cagework and nuzzled into the lock at its base: click-thump.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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The dock was a conical cagework at the end of a protruding arm, barely visible even this close.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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Geographic was half the sky now; more, as the silver wall of the fuel balloon slid past and the conical cagework opened like a mouth.
The Legacy of Heorot Niven, Larry 1987
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On entering the old-fashioned quadrangle, surrounded by stables and other offices -- built in the antique cagework fashion -- they stopped for a while under the shadow of the inn gable, and looked round the yard, and listened.
Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Then from the starving cagework city a horde of jerkined dwarfs, my people, with flayers’ knives, running, scaling, hacking in green blubbery whalemeat.
Ulysses 2003
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