Cageling
Full definition of cageling
Noun
cageling
(plural cagelings)- (uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage.
- 1869, R._D._Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, ch. 20,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'," Modern Language Notes, vol. 33, no. 7, p. 434,Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.