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cager

American

[key-jer] / ˈkeɪ dʒər /

noun

Informal. a basketball player.
Mining. a machine for putting cars on or off a cage.

Etymology

Origin of cager

First recorded in 1910–15; cage + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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It is for this call of music, which I knew would one day come to dissolve all the barriers of love, that I have all along been listening with an cager ear.

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Tagore, Rabindranath

Three rings or whistles shall signify that men are coming up; when return signal is received from the engineer, men will get on the cage, and cager shall ring or whistle one to start.

From Mining Laws of Ohio, 1921 by Relations, The Department of Industrial

As often as I think of thee, And how thou longest to be free, My heart is stirred, And, were my strength but equal to my rage, Methinks thy cager would be in his cage.

From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham

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