cageling

English

Etymology

cage +‎ -ling

Noun

cageling (plural cagelings)

1. (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.

References

• “cageling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

• glacéing