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Definition of Cageling
1. n. A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird.
Definition of Cageling
1. Noun. (uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cageling
1. a caged bird [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cageling
Literary usage of Cageling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"Or am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flo cageling, who among the branches free,
plays and peeps at offered cage (as a home not to be urged on him), ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"... to my thinking, one high note, Dropt by the soaring sky-lark from the sky,
Than all that's warbled from a cageling's throat Minds are there, too, ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"At last she let herself be conquered by him, And as the cageling newly flown
returns, The seeming-injured simple-hearted thing Came to her old perch back, ..."
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