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sinews
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What does sinews mean?
noun
- 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.
But he that first said that money was the sinews of affairs, seems especially in that saying to refer to war.
More book examples (3)
The most painful are caused by wind generated within the body, which gets about the great sinews of the shoulders—these are termed tetanus.
Different fashions prevailed in different localities, and sinews, leather thongs, roughly plaited cords, creepers, and resinous substances were often pressed into the service.
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.