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Chest protectors
Answer for the clue "Chest protectors ", 8 letters:
sternums
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alt. (plural of sternum English) n. (plural of sternum English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sternum \Ster"num\, n.; pl. L. Sterna , E. Sternums . [NL., from Gr. ?, the breast, chest.] (Anat.) A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; ...
Usage examples of sternums.
There was very little real movement for long minutes as they struggled, fingers grasping wrists, elbows against sternums, a kind of perverse engine, stifling on its own energy output.
She was spared the fate of hundreds all about her who died of broken necks, crushed windpipes, shattered sternums, and multiple fractures that severed their arteries, nerves, and organs.
Two Russian sternums were cracked and the bones driven backwards into two Russian hearts.