The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thewed \Thewed\ (th[=u]d), a.
Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.
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Accustomed; mannered. [Obs.]
--John Skelton.Yet would not seem so rude and thewed ill.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
1 Having thew or muscle. 2 accustomed or educated. v
(en-past of: thew)
Usage examples of "thewed".
In the story that now came to Enoch' s mind, the first installment of the serial had ended with the mightily thewed hero trapped at the bottom of a very deep pit floored with poison-tipped stakes as a horde of coral snakes slithered toward him, brackish water was pumped into the pit and was rising rapidly, his left arm was broken, he was without weapon, and a man-eating Sumatran black panther peered over the lip of the pit, watching him closely.
In the story that now came to Enoch s mind, the first installment of the serial had ended with the mightily thewed hero trapped at the bottom of a very deep pit floored with poison-tipped stakes as a horde of coral snakes slithered toward him, brackish water was pumped into the pit and was rising rapidly, his left arm was broken, he was without weapon, and a man-eating Sumatran black panther peered over the lip of the pit, watching him closely.