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gabion | cage |

As a noun gabion

is a cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).

As a proper noun cage is

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gabion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
  • A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
  • A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
  • A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.
    • Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.
  • * 1774 , James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie'' p. vi, quoted in 2004, ''Reliquiae Trotcosiensis , Edinburgh University Press, p.6,
    • The meaning of the word Gabion , as it is used in the poem, is not to be sought for in any dictionary. It was of the venerable old gentleman Mr Ruthven?s own coining, and it was well enough understood among his select friends, to mean nothing else but the miscellaneous curiosities in his closet humorously described in the poem.

    Related terms

    * gabioned

    Derived terms

    * gabion wall

    See also

    * sap — several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications

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    cage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.
    • We keep a bird in a cage .
    The tigers are in a cage to protect the public.
    The most dangerous prisoners are locked away in a cage .
  • the passenger compartment of a lift
  • (hockey, water polo) the goal.
  • (US derogatory slang) automobile
  • (figuratively) Something that hinders freedom.
  • (athletics) The area from which competitors throw a discus or hammer.
  • (obsolete) A place of confinement for malefactors.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Lovelace
    • Stone walls do not a prison make, / Nor iron bars a cage .
  • An outer framework of timber, enclosing something within it.
    • the cage of a staircase
    (Gwilt)
  • (engineering) A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, such as a ball valve.
  • A wirework strainer, used in connection with pumps and pipes.
  • (mining) The drum on which the rope is wound in a hoisting whim.
  • (baseball) The catcher's wire mask.

    • Derived terms

    * birdcage * cageling * cagey * roll cage

    Verb

    (cag)
  • To put into a cage.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • To keep in a cage.
  • To track individual responses to direct mail, either (advertising) to maintain and develop mailing lists or (politics) to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses.
  • (figuratively) To restrict someone's movement or creativity.

    • Derived terms

    * caged in * uncage * caging list * rattle someone's cage