bone-cage

noun

Any rigid bony enclosure that protects or houses soft tissues, as the ribcage.

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Meanings

nounbone-cage (plural bone-cages)

plural bone-cages

  1. Any rigid bony enclosure that protects or houses soft tissues, as the ribcage.

    It would keep the bone-cage of his body safe: no enemy's clasp would crush him in it, no vicious armlock choke his life out.

    1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 47
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APA

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Chicago

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