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Definition of Cagelike
1. resembling a cage (an enclosure) [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cagelike
Literary usage of Cagelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The stability of this light cagelike structure depends, not only upon the mortising
together of its principal members, with thorough nailing and spiking, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"The small cagelike projection is especially intended for the water bottle of
porous clay, in which the water is cooled by evaporation, and this may project ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"The open cagelike spire which is seen in this church has its parallel at Burgos,
and else.. where in the Peninsula, but is nowhere to be met with in England ..."
4. Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before: Together with Notes on the Cults by George Turner (1884)
"The whole of this upper cagelike work look.s compact and tidy, and at the first
glance is admired by strangers as being alike novel, ingenious, ..."
5. Japan, Real and Imaginary by Sydney Greenbie (1920)
"One little fellow, half frightened and half excited at my sudden appearance,
crouched in the shadows of his cagelike cell. All cells are on the open. ..."
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