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- noun Plural form of
cagework .
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The secondary armament, mounted in tops, cageworks, bulkheads, etc., were breech-loading; but these smaller pieces fell out of favor as time went on owing to reliance on long-range fire and rareness of boarding actions.
A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916
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