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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