cage in


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Verb 1. cage in - confine in a cage; "The animal was caged"
detain, confine - deprive of freedom; take into confinement
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As "the Fighting Wolf" he was known far and wide, and the cage in which he was kept on the steam-boat's deck was usually surrounded by curious men.
Below him he could now see the top of Astok's cage in the parallel shaft, and he reduced the speed of his to that of the other.
Implantation of an empty polyetheretherketone cage in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a prospective randomised controlled study with 2 years follow-up.
Whereas the volume edited by Nattiez reveals a (likely) competitive streak between Boulez and Cage in the early days of their friendship--which brought out misunderstandings and aesthetic differences between the two composers--the more-recently-edited exchanges between Cage and Tudor, a pianist who premiered many of the piano works, offers less rich pickings.
After hearing their sentences, the defendants defiantly flashed the four-finger Rabaa sign synonymous with the Brotherhood's 2013 sit-ins and chanted "down with military rule" from inside a cage in the courtroom.
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