cage
noun
a boxlike enclosure having wires, bars, or the like, for confining and displaying birds or animals.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"And is that the crown of thorns that thy beauteous head is caging?"
From A Celtic Psaltery by Alfred Perceval Graves