The tendon that connects muscles to bone is also called sinew. The noun is also used to suggest strength and resilience, and is sometimes used as a literary term for muscle, literal or metaphorical, as in “a nation’s sinew.”
A tendon or tendonous tissue. See
Noun
muscular strength
Noun
a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
n.
A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
n.
Muscle; nerve.
n.
Fig.: That which supplies strength or power.
v. t.
To knit together, or make strong with, or as with,
sinews.
Sinew
The portion and sinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry.
The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.
Sinew
Wretches, now stuck up for long tortures . . . might, if properly treated, serve to sinew the state in time of danger.
A tendon or tendonous tissue. See
To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews.
Usage Examples
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhen you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
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