Caging

Caging
Cage Cage (k[=a]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caged} (k[=a]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Caging}.] To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine. ``Caged and starved to death.'' --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

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