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cage /kāj/ noun- A compartment or enclosure, usu made from bars and wires, for confining captive animals and birds
- A prison
- A frame with a platform or platforms used in hoisting in a vertical shaft, eg in a mine or lift
- A framework that encloses, protects or supports
- Any structure resembling a cage in function
- A structure of steel supports and netting to protect garden fruit and vegetables from birds
- A squirrel's nest (dialect)
- A goal, consisting of a frame with a net attached, as in ice hockey
- An enclosed area used for batting practice (baseball)
transitive verb (cagˈing; caged) To imprison in a cage ORIGIN: Fr, from L cavea a hollow place caged adjective Confined cageˈling noun A bird that is or has been kept in a cage cageˈ-bird noun A bird of a kind habitually kept in a cage cageˈ-cup noun A kind of glass bowl of late Roman times, with a filigree-type glass decoration attached to the bowl by tiny struts (also diatrēˈtum) cage fighter noun cage fighting noun A form of ultimate fighting (qv under ultimate) in which the opponents fight inside a wire enclosure cageˈwork noun Open-work like the bars of a cage cage in (usu figurative) To imprison rattle someone's (or the) cage (informal) To stir (someone) up, provoke (someone's) anger or irritation rattle /ratˈl/ intransitive verb- To make a quick succession or alternation of short hard sounds
- To move along rapidly making such a sound
- To chatter briskly and emptily
transitive verb- To cause to rattle
- To fluster, disconcert or irritate (informal)
- To assail with rattling (Shakespeare)
- To utter glibly, as by rote (often with off)
- To perform or push through to completion in a rapid, perfunctory or noisy manner
- To scold loudly (obsolete)
noun- An instrument or toy producing a rattling sound when shaken
- An instrument for making a whirring noise, formerly used by watchmen
- A similar device used at festive gatherings
- A dice-box (old slang)
- A plant whose seeds rattle in the capsule, applied to two scrophulaceous plants, yellow rattle or cock's-comb (Rhinanthus crista-galli) and red rattle or marsh lousewort (Pedicularis palustris)
- The rings of a rattlesnake's tail
- A vivacious prattler
- A spell of lively chattering
- The sound of rattling
- The crackling of paper
- A sound in the throat of a dying person (also death rattle)
- Racket
ORIGIN: ME ratelen; cf Ger rasseln, Du ratelen to rattle; connection with OE plant names hratele, hrætelwyrt is questioned rattˈler noun - A rattle
- A coach (old slang)
- A rattlesnake (informal)
- A telling blow (informal)
- An excellent specimen of the kind (informal)
rattˈling noun adjective - Making a rattle
- Smart, lively
- Strikingly good (informal)
adverb Strikingly rattˈly adjective (rattˈlier; rattˈliest) - Making a rattling noise
- Inclined to rattle
rattˈlebag noun - A rattle or rattling apparatus
- A person who causes commotion (Scot)
rattˈlebrain, rattˈlehead or rattˈlepate noun A shallow, voluble, volatile person rattˈle-brained, rattˈle-headed or rattˈle-pated adjective rattˈlesnake noun A venomous American pit-viper (genus Crotalus) with rattling horny rings on the end of its tail rattˈletrap noun (informal) - A contemptuous name for any apparatus, equipment, finery, bric-à-brac
- A rickety vehicle
- The mouth
rattle someone's cage (informal) To stir someone up to anger or excitement |