Meaning of cageful | Babel Free

Definitions

That which can fit into a cage.

Examples

“Although all you see are English faces, and you hear no other language but English spoken, yet you soon become aware that you are in a country very different from England, by the number of parrots and other birds of strange note and plumage which you observe hanging at so many doors, and cagesful of which you will soon see exposed for sale as you proceed.”

“The Cossacks chattered and screamed, like a cageful of parrots stirred up by some mischievous boy […]”

“Witness called the fireman and the other fireman to take their names, and he sent for a horse to pull the tram out, and he allowed three cagesful of the men, about sixty, to go out.”

““[…] I should say she’s as safe as a canary in a cageful of cats.””

“Ginger used to sleep in this room, guarding the cagesful of birds.[…]There were still several cagesful of flapping and squawking and smothering canaries left in that basement room.”

“The enamelling shop uses an I.C.I. degreasing plant with a most useful air hoist fitted to eliminate lifting of cagesful of clock cases by manual effort — a further instance of the use of air power in this factory.”

“We left Mr. Luke to wander through the Gimbel menagerie, eight cagesful of animals, from camel to zebra, which had been rented from a game farm in upstate New York.”

“I looked at a cageful of monkeys and suddenly I saw all the mean and cruel and utterly unexplainable things I’ve seen and heard and read about in the time I’ve been with my own people […]”

“The colors are so brilliant, when the master is not working in his trademark black and white, that some of the galleries with their stylized mannequins have the look of cagesful of preening macaws.”

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