bone-cage

English

Noun

bone-cage (plural bone-cages)

  1. Any rigid bony enclosure that protects or houses soft tissues, as the ribcage.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 47:
      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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