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bone-cage

bone-cage noun: any rigid bony enclosure that protects or houses soft tissues, as the ribcage.

Noun

bone-cage (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

Forms of bone-cage

pluralbone-cages

Questions about bone-cage

What does bone-cage mean?
Bone-cage means any rigid bony enclosure that protects or houses soft tissues, as the ribcage.
What part of speech is bone-cage?
Bone-cage is a noun.
What is the plural of bone-cage?
The plural of bone-cage is bone-cages.

Words near bone-cage in the dictionary

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  2. bone up
  3. Bone Wars
  4. bone wax
  5. bone-ash
  6. bone-cage
  7. bone-cages
  8. bone-chilling
  9. bone-crunching
  10. bone-crushing dog
  11. bone-crushing dogs

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