cageling

English

Etymology

cage +‎ -ling

Noun

cageling (plural cagelings)

  1. (uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage.
    • 1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 20, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:
      Am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage?
    • 1918, Paul Haupt, "English 'coop' == Assyrian 'Quppu'," Modern Language Notes, vol. 33, no. 7, p. 434,
      Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.

References
  • cageling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

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