Bone-cage

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

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