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bone-cages

bone-cages is the plural of bone-cage.

Meaning of bone-cage

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

Questions about bone-cages

What is bone-cages the plural of?
Bone-cages is the plural of bone-cage.

Words near bone-cages in the dictionary

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

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