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cageless

cageless adjective: without a cage.

Adjective

cageless (not comparable)

  1. Without a cage.
    • cageless roller bearings in automobile manufacture
    • Not sure where animals like this can go: caged lemur, leopard, pacing at the bar: the humanary flow that waves, framing its discretionary flight to where the cageless captives nightly sight the dreamsters’ dreams of bestial delight or plunge to a wickedness below which bestiality itself must never...1992, David Storey, “Animals”, in Storey’s Lives: Poems 1951–1991, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 264

Origin of cageless

From cage + -less.

Words formed from cageless

Questions about cageless

What does cageless mean?
Cageless means without a cage.
What part of speech is cageless?
Cageless is an adjective.

Words near cageless in the dictionary

  1. cageboxes
  2. cageboxing
  3. caged
  4. cageful
  5. cagefuls
  6. cageless
  7. cagelessness
  8. cagelike
  9. cageling
  10. cagelings
  11. cageman

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