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sinews

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What does sinews mean?

noun

  1. plural of sinew

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The torrent roar’d, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
But he that first said that money was the sinews of affairs, seems especially in that saying to refer to war.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
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The most painful are caused by wind generated within the body, which gets about the great sinews of the shoulders—these are termed tetanus.
PlatoTimaeusTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1572
Different fashions prevailed in different localities, and sinews, leather thongs, roughly plaited cords, creepers, and resinous substances were often pressed into the service.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309
Next she tied round her a girdle of opossum's sinews with strands of woven opossum's hair hanging about a foot square in front.
K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) ParkerThe Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in AustraliaProject Gutenberg ebook #3819