Definition of Cagefuls

1. cageful [n] - See also: cageful

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cagefuls

cage compounds
cage dances
cage diving
cage fighter
cage fighters
cage fighting
cage in
cage match
cagebird
cagebirds
caged
caged ATP
cageful
cagefuls (current term)
cageless
cagelike
cageling
cagelings
cagemate
cagemates
cager
cagers
cages
cagework
cageworks
cagey
cageyness
cageynesses

Literary usage of Cagefuls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... birds of strange note and plumage which you observe hanging at so many doors, and cagefuls of which you will soon see exposed for sale as you proceed. ..."

2. Two Years in New South Wales: A Series of Letters, Comprising Sketches of by Peter Miller Cunningham (1827)
"It would only be necessary to import a few cagefuls of wild ones, retaining them in a large aviary till they put their feathers in order, and giving them a ..."

3. Report of Meeting by ANZAAS, ANZAAS. (1908)
"Amongst the rate in captivity it occasionally happens that cagefuls would mysteriously die off. At last this was traced to ulceration of the soles of the ..."

4. The Rights and Wrongs of Labor by W J McSweeney (1905)
"He had the union miners brought to the surface in cagefuls even before they had time to strike, and, with clothes dripping with water, put them in this ..."

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