cageling
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cageling (plural cagelings)
- (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',”, in Modern Language Notes, volume 33, number 7, page 434:
- Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.
References edit
- “cageling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.