a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.

anything that confines or imprisons; prison.

something resembling a cage in structure, as for a cashier or bank teller.

the car or enclosed platform of an elevator.

Mining . an enclosed platform for raising and lowering people and cars in a mine shaft.

any skeleton framework.

Baseball . a movable backstop for use mainly in batting practice.

a frame with a net attached to it, forming the goal in ice hockey and field hockey.

Basketball Older Use . the basket.

a loose, sheer or lacy overdress worn with a slip or a close-fitting dress.

Ordnance . a steel framework for supporting guns.

Machinery . retainer 1 ( def. 3 ) .

to put or confine in or as if in a cage.

Sports . to shoot (as a puck) into a cage so as to score a goal.

verb

free , let go , let out , release

noun

coop , corral , crate , enclosure , fold , jail , mew , pen , pinfold , pound

verb

close in , confine , coop up , enclose , envelop , fence in , hem , immure , impound , imprison , incarcerate , jail , lock up , mew , pen , restrain , shut in , shut up , coop , fence , wall , basket , box , brake , bucket , chantry , enclosure , pound , prison