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Definition of Cagework
1. open work like the bars of a cage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cagework
Literary usage of Cagework
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"MAUD was looking at the house—a huge structure of the cagework sort, which stood
out in the light broad and high, its black Vs and X's and I'B traced in ..."
2. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1894)
"not, we discharged 25 or 30 muskets into her cagework, at one volley, with arrows
and bullet. And presently they gave us two great shot, whereupon we let ..."
3. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1907)
"... the other a flush-decked type, without forecastle and sometimes without poop,
lying " low and snug in the water," unhampered by any "tottering cagework. ..."
4. Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States by Putnam, George Rockwell, 1865- (1917)
"Lightships are easily recognized in the daytime, as they differ from other vessels
in their unusual rig and shape, with cagework at the mastheads as a day ..."
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