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Home for a hamster or parakeet
Answer for the clue "Home for a hamster or parakeet ", 4 letters:
cage
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Word definitions for cage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., from Old French cage "cage, prison; retreat, hideout" (12c.), from Latin cavea "hollow place, enclosure for animals, coop, hive, stall, dungeon, spectators' seats in the theater" (source also of Italian gabbia "basket for fowls, coop;" see cave ...
Usage examples of cage.
But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle.
The metal hoops of the accelerating cage sang lightly as the weight came on.
The scene was immediately acted with great success, and our hero cooped up in his cage, where he waited so long, that his desires began to subside, and his imagination to aggravate the danger of his situation.
Instead of cages, in the centre of his wooden construction, he had a small reflector telescope, secure on an altazimuth mount.
Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.
He glanced about, at the cage, the obliviously moving aliens, at the slick sheen of mercury-like substance that covered the armature of the birdcage.
For as by way of possibility, Since thou art at thy large, of prison free, And art a lord, great is thine avantage, More than is mine, that sterve here in a cage.
And the Babiroussa would have been installed in its cage in the Jardin des Plantes, and have drawn all the curious people of the capital!
While he and Begay lay motionless, two of the guards turned and walked off, leaving only one of their number standing in front of the cage.
The convoy appeared to be in the process of installing Commander ho Bem in one of the cages.
For a minute, as bra Bem stood stolidly in the middle of the cage, the captain was afraid the Pandronian was actually going to resist the rescue.
STAR TREK NIB 23 When the sun rose again, Commander bn Bem was back in his cage.
Kirk, Spock, and bn Bem found themselves secured within the three cages only recently vacated.
He was caged between surgeries, fed raw meat and vitamin injections, anesthetized and programmed in ways that are sophisticated even for today: biofeedback, subliminal conditioning.
As he put the budgie back into its cage it crossed his mind that he ought to buy Danny a companion.