caged

Confined in a cage.

Adjective

  1. Confined in a cage.
  2. Produced by birds confined in cages; not free-range.
    • Two thirds of the class decided that free-range eggs had more taste and flavour than caged eggs and one third liked the taste of caged eggs more than free range. - 2017, Kathy Smith, John Loughran, Quality Learning:...
  3. Resembling a cage.
    • It is lighter to handle and more manoeuvrable, and its three caged sides with web straps on the fourth prevent movement of the contents. - 1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new parcel traffic method”, in Modern...
  4. Jailed, imprisoned, incarcerated.

Derived

noncaged

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of cage