English

Noun

cageling ‎(plural cagelings)

1. (uncommon) A bird that is kept confined in a cage.
   • 1869, R. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, ch. 20,

     Am I as a child perhaps, chasing a flown cageling, who among the branches free plays and peeps at the offered cage?

   • 1918, Paul Haupt, "English 'coop' == Assyrian 'Quppu'," Modern Language Notes, vol. 33, no. 7, p. 434,

     Semmacherib says that he cooped up King Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem like a cageling.

References

• cageling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.