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Join together a leg broken inside of plane (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fuselage

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'of plane' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'join together a leg broken' is the wordplay.
'join together' becomes 'fuse' (I've seen this in another clue).
'broken' indicates anagramming the letters.
'a'+'leg'='aleg'
'aleg' is an anagram of 'lage'.
'fuse'+'lage'='FUSELAGE'

'inside' is the link.

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(Other definitions for fuselage that I've seen before include "Long body" , "Central body of an aeroplane" , "part of plane" , "part of aircraft" , "Main body of aircraft" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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