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cagelings

cagelings is the plural of cageling.

Meaning of cageling

Noun

cageling (plural cagelings)

  1. (uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage.
    • Am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage?1869, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 20, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor

Questions about cagelings

What is cagelings the plural of?
Cagelings is the plural of cageling.

Words near cagelings in the dictionary

  1. cagefuls
  2. cageless
  3. cagelessness
  4. cagelike
  5. cageling
  6. cagelings
  7. cageman
  8. cagemate
  9. cagemates
  10. cagemen
  11. cager

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