Crossword clues for sinew
sinew
- Strength of unusual wines
- Strength of Reds perhaps having switched ends
- Strength of card players holding one over their opponents
- Strength is recalled not having been used?
- Power is rising by three quarters
- Physical strength is back, regenerated
- Tough cord connecting muscle to bone
- Tough connective tissue
- Tendon, ligament
- Tendon, for example
- Tendon - ligament
- Body part
- Muscular power
- Muscle-bone connector
- Connective tissue
- Physical strength
- Muscle-to-bone connector
- Tough tissue
- Tough, fibrous tissue
- Bone-to-muscle connection
- Untender part of a chicken tender
- Tissue that connects muscles to bones
- Tendon — ligament
- Symbol of strength
- Source of toughness
- Personal power
- Muscular "swine" anagram
- Muscle-to-bone cord
- Mixed wines?
- Bone-to-muscle joiner
- Toughness
- Strength provider
- Tendon; strength
- Resilience
- Resiliency
- Inner connection?
- Muscle connector
- Brawn
- Source of strength
- Bone-muscle connector
- Muscular strength
- Resilient strength
- Raw power
- Power cord?
- Muscle-bone binder
- Muscle/bone connection
- Wiriness
- Muscle power
- Might
- A cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- Vigorous strength
- Mixed wines? (5)
- Bone connector
- Thew
- Strengthen
- Muscular link
- Muscle in on small company, lacking credit
- Might offend partners playing bridge
- City such as London is back in strength
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinew \Sin"ew\, n. [OE. sinewe, senewe, AS. sinu, seonu; akin to D. zenuw, OHG. senawa, G. sehne, Icel. sin, Sw. sena, Dan. sene; cf. Skr. sn[=a]va. [root]290.]
(Anat.) A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
Muscle; nerve. [R.]
--Sir J. Davies.-
Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry.
--Shak.The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.
--Sir W. Raleigh.Note: Money alone is often called the sinews of war.
Sinew \Sin"ew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sinewed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sinewing.]
To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
--Shak.
Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures . . . might,
if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time
of danger.
--Goldsmith.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English seonowe, oblique form of nominative sionu "sinew," from Proto-Germanic *senawo (cognates: Old Saxon sinewa, Old Norse sina, Old Frisian sine, Middle Dutch senuwe, Dutch zenuw, Old High German senawa, German Sehne), from PIE root *sai- "to tie, bind" (cognates: Sanskrit snavah "sinew," Avestan snavar, Irish sin "chain").
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A cord or tendon of the body. 2 (context obsolete English) A nerve. 3 (context figuratively English) muscle; nerve; nervous energy; vigor; vigorous strength; muscular power. 4 A string or chord, as of a musical instrument. 5 (context figuratively English) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting member or factor; mainstay; source of strength (often plural). vb. To knit together, or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
WordNet
Usage examples of "sinew".
A rabbit snare is made of fine babiche, sinew, cord, or wire, and the loop is hung over a rabbit runway just high enough to catch it round the neck.
He then tied the baleen, tensed as it was, together with some stout tabuk sinew.
Bit by bit, loosened molecule by loosened molecule, in accordance with the patient, relentless laws of chemistry, the sinew slowly dissolved, weakening the bond which held the compressed, contorted, sharpened baleen, until the slender bond broke.
He sang a kayak-making song, customarily sung to the leather, wood and sinew, with which he worked, that it not betray him in the polar sea.
If the damned knee was going to stiffen, let it stiffen in the bad directions, not the good one, let it stiffen so it could no longer make the motion to the side that would tear the sinews and betray the balance.
I but reach them they would make at least a drier bed than this of mine, and at that thought, turning over, I found all my muscles as stiff as iron, the sinews of my neck and forearms a mass of agonies and no more fit to swim me to those reedy swamps, which now, as pain and hunger began to tell, seemed to wear the aspects of paradise.
The flesh of these persons was entire and undecayed, of a brown dryish colour, produced by time, the flesh having adhered closely to the bones and sinews.
The eland antelope has a peculiar characteristic, unique in the African wild: the mighty sinews in its legs make a strange click with each step it takes.
In his left hand he held a short spear, the blade of which seemed to be fashioned of chipped flint, or some other hard and shining stone, and in the girdle of his kilt was thrust a wooden-handled instrument or ax, made by setting a great, sharp-edged stone that must have weighed two pounds or so into the cleft end of the handle which was lashed with sinews both above and below the axhead.
These splinters she fashioned into needles, boring an eye in the head of them with a sharp and heated flint, and threading the sinews through them, began to sew in a fashion such as Pag had never seen.
Then, from the prepared flint nodules he had with him, Jondalar knapped new blades and attached them to the spear shafts with the thick glue he had made as a coating for the boat, and fresh sinew.
He lowered his head and slipped the thin cord of sinew from about his neck, offering the ongon to Yeb.
Cold rheum, and hot podagra, do but look on him, And quit their grasp upon the tortured sinews.
Here was Sapling, for instance, his spear-thrower slung over his back on a length of sinew, his pale eyes clouded as he watched the woman who had taught him so much.
The frame was sawn from sections of whale rib, pegged together and tied with sinews.