[f. prec. sb.] trans. To confine in, or as in, a cage; to imprison.
1577. Harrison, England, II. xiv. (1877), 265. To be caged vp as in a coope.
1625. Hart, Anat. Ur., I. v. 46. The women are caged vp like linnets.
1805. Southey, Madoc in W., vi. They lie … Conquer’d and caged and fetter’d.
1813. Byron, Br. Abydos, II. xx. When cities cage us in a social home.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. i. 16. I don’t stay caged in my shop all day.
b. To fit as a cage in the shaft of a mine.
1860. All Y. Round, No. 55. 103. Baskets that would rarely be dangerous if they were caged and supplied with proper guide-rods.
