The Collaborative International Dictionary
bird-cage
Bird cage \Bird" cage"\, bird-cage \bird-cage\, or Birdcage \Bird"cage`\, n. A cage for confining birds.
Wiktionary
bird-cage
n. (alternative spelling of birdcage English)
Usage examples of "bird-cage".
On one column hung a bird-cage in which a three-headed cockatoo was singing to beat the band.
Mothballs, the long-ago urinations of successive cat companions, the smell of unchanged and uncleaned bird-cages, the smell of mothballs in old tweed skirts and out-of-date dresses and rubbed-bare, patchy fur coats.