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English
Etymology
From cage + -ling.
Noun
cageling (plural cagelings)
- (uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage.
1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 20, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor: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',”, in Modern Language Notes, volume 33, number 7, page 434:Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.
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