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Muscular power
Answer for the clue "Muscular power ", 5 letters:
thews
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English þeawes "customs, habit, manners; morals, conduct, disposition, personal qualities," plural of þeaw "habit, custom," from Proto-Germanic *thawaz (cognates: Old Saxon thau "usage, custom, habit," Old High German thau "discipline"). According to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Attractive physical attributes or features; good bodily proportions; muscles; vigour. 2 (plural of thew English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: thew )
Usage examples of thews.
All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.
In fact, in her dreams at night this man of her future often wore the face and thews of Faldain, whose image she had once summoned by parting the veils of seeing.
Those thews ran not through base blocks of land wood, but deftly travelled over sheaves of sea-ivory.
A veritable giant, flaxen-haired and massive of thews, just like thousands more German men he had known-Burgundus!