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Answer for the clue "Bird cage swing ", 5 letters:
perch

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Word definitions for perch in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"where a bird rests," late 13c., originally only "a pole, rod, stick, stake," from Old French perche "unit of linear measurement" (5.5 yards), also "measuring rod, pole, bar" used to measure this length (13c.), from Latin pertica "pole, long staff, measuring ...

Usage examples of perch.

Yoshiko experimented for a few minutes with the hand controller, getting the feel of the thrusters, while Tessa filmed the whole process, showing the people back home the ungainly, angular LM perched atop the spent third stage booster, and Yoshiko peering out the tiny windows as she concentrated on bringing the CSM around until the docking collar at the top of the capsule pointed at the hatch on top of the LM.

The officer gestured, and the two sailors perched in the banyan branches above the pinnace put up their rifles.

Enobarbus turned to give his orders, and at that moment one of the sailors perched in the branches of the banyan to which the pinnace was moored cried out.

Batty and Carob perched on his shoulder, Batty tense and straight, Carob hunched as if in thought.

Jennet patted the sweet-smelling bedtick she was perched upon, her legs tucked under her.

Perched on a jutting eminence, and half shrouded in the bushes which clothed it, the silent fisherman took his place, while his fly was made to kiss the water in capricious evolutions, such as the experienced angler knows how to employ to beguile the wary victim from close cove, or gloomy hollow, or from beneath those decaying trunks of overthrown trees which have given his brood a shelter from immemorial time.

While the female sits close, the male perches on top of the nest, occasionally beguiling the time by inconsequent repairs and petty squabbles with next door neighbours.

There was a sizzling blue flash, the benzine ignited instantly and 180 volts hit me like a charge of buckshot, knocking me off my perch.

His full-tailed frock-coat of old-fashioned cut hung from the knob of his chair, on which was perched his billycock hat.

On his head perched a low-crowned billycock hat as evil as the rest of the rig.

To add to the incongruity of his appearance, on the top of his hair, which was still done in ridges, Zulu fashion, and decorated with long bone snuff-spoons, was perched an extremely small and rakish-looking billycock hat, and in his hand he carried his favourite and most gigantic knobstick.

Then she walked down to the nick, feeling the freshness of a blowy morning which had brought various seagulls this far inland to toss themselves on the high breezes, or perch on roof-ridges looking, with their fierce curved beaks, somehow sinisterly displaced.

It came out a whisper, hushed by an image: his bonsai, perched on pedestals outside the windows letting onto the terrace.

The supposed aboriginal stocks must all have been rock-pigeons, that is, not breeding or willingly perching on trees.

A gray brindled tomcat perched on the back of the seat and regarded him with a superior smirk, whiskers quivering.