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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
brawn
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Football players are known more for their brawn than their brains.
▪ The battle was won by brain rather than brawn.
▪ You can't be good at tennis if you rely on brawn alone -- it takes skill as well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gammage was the brains, and Seals was the brawn.
▪ Intelligence was the thing in a case like this, not brawn.
▪ Jobs requiring mere brawn are dwindling, replaced by lower-paid jobs requiring skill, education and a high degree of interpersonal polish.
▪ This technology means brawn no longer matters.
▪ We impose heavy loads on those with both brain and brawn, and we expect saintliness from them as well.
▪ What they lack in brawn they make up for in skill.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brawn

Brawn \Brawn\, n. [OF. braon fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. br?to flesh, G. braten roast meat; akin to Icel. br?? flesh, food of beasts, AS. br?de roast meat, br?dan to roast, G. braten, and possibly to E. breed.]

  1. A muscle; flesh. [Obs.]

    Formed well of brawns and of bones.
    --Chaucer.

  2. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.

    Brawn without brains is thine.
    --Dryden.

    It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand.
    --E. Hall.

    And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn.
    --Shak.

  3. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

    The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn.
    --Mortimer.

  4. A boar. [Obs.]
    --Beau. & Fl.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
brawn

late 13c., from Old French braon "fleshy or muscular part, buttock," from Frankish *brado "ham, roast" or some other Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *bred-on- (cognates: Old High German brato "tender meat," German Braten "roast," Old Norse brað "raw meat," Old English bræd "flesh"), from PIE *bhre- "burn, heat," from root *bhreuə- "to boil, bubble, effervesce, burn" (see brew (v.)). The original sense is "piece of meat suitable for roasting." "The specific sense 'boar's flesh' is exclusively of English development, and characteristic of English habits" [OED].

Wiktionary
brawn

n. 1 Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb. 2 Physical strength; muscularity. 3 (context chiefly British English) head cheese; a terrine made from the head of a pig or calf; originally boar's meat. vb. 1 (context transitive English) Make fat, especially of a boar. 2 (context intransitive English) Become fat, especially of a boar.

WordNet
brawn

n. muscular strength [syn: muscle, sinew]

Wikipedia
Brawn (Transformers)

Brawn is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers universes. All are tough Autobots who turn into offroad vehicles.

Brawn (disambiguation)

Brawn is a meat dish.

Brawn may also refer to:

  • Brawn (Transformers), a fictional character from the various Transformers universes
  • Brawn (surname), a family name
  • Physical strength, the capacity for muscular force
  • An episode of the television series The Batman
  • Brawn GP, a former Formula 1 team
Brawn (surname)

Brawn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Billy Brawn
  • Anna Livia Julian Brawn (1955-2007), American writer
  • Ross Brawn (born 1954), British Formula One team owner

Usage examples of "brawn".

Helva realized her muscles were to be given less of a workout than her brawn on this tedious mission.

The lift ascended and shortly her new brawn was framed in the open lock, against the brilliant Regulan sky.

Falernova Mirsky of Canopus had finished all but a year of brawn training.

A long term of hospitalization and therapy followed, during which time, the tape noted, Kira had asked for and taken medical training but did not reapply for brawn education.

Helva translated, as she was expected to, to mean that Kira Mirsky of Canopus would make an unusually fine brawn if she gave herself half a chance.

That damned biograph left too much unsaid, particularly apparent to a brawn trainee.

Kira had nearly finished brawn training, Helva remembered that factor.

Having enticed the brawn away, they assumed the ship was grounded, impotent, and they could take their time forcing Kira to accede to their designs on the embryos.

Amon sounded so disagreeable that Helva began to wonder just how much the brawn was at fault.

She called the traffic tower to ask for another landing slot, preferably nearer the brawn barracks.

Beta Corvi assignment will require an unusual exercise of diplomacy on the part of both partners, as brain and brawn will be in direct contact with the Corviki throughout the mission.

Well, that obviously lets me out as I have no brawn at the moment, do I?

Helva had to admit Niall Parollan had been demoralizingly accurate about Brawn Teron of Acthion.

By custom and by any other brawn but Teron, the check was left to the brain partner.

Helva continued inexorably, this attack was engineered to overcome brawn and brain simultaneously.