cageless

English

Etymology

cage +‎ -less

Adjective

cageless (not comparable)

1. Without a cage.

   cageless roller bearings in automobile manufacture

   • 1992, David Storey, “Animals”, in Storey’s Lives: Poems 1951–1991, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 264:

     Not sure where animals like this can go: caged lemur, leopard, pacing at the bar: the humanary flow that waves, framing its discretionary flight to where the cageless captives nightly sight the dreamsters’ dreams of bestial delight or plunge to a wickedness below which bestiality itself must never go.