cage

Definitions

• An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
• The passenger compartment of a lift.
• (hockey) The goal.
• (US) An automobile.
• (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
• (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
• An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
• (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
• A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
• (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
• (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.
• (graph theory) A regular graph that has as few vertices as possible for its girth.