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Sinewed adj.

Furnished with sinews; as, a strong-sinewed youth.

Fig.: Equipped; strengthened. "When he sees Ourselves well sinewed to our defense."

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Etymology of 'Sinewed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sinewed" Quotes from Famous Books

... much better fitted for the arduous, and perhaps not wholly legitimate, business of historical poetry than Daniel. If his genius was somewhat less fine, it was infinitely better thewed and sinewed. His ability, indeed, to force any subject which he chose to treat into poetry is amazing, and can hardly be paralleled elsewhere except in a poet who was born but just before Drayton's death, John Dryden. ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... before he struck a way through. He had chosen for himself the longest and the hardest route. That was like him, and that was proper for the oldest and the most experienced. Now he, too, needed a surgeon. The bandy-legged, long-bodied, toughly-sinewed little Kit Carson who had faced many a scrape and "scrimmage" on plains and mountains, was ...

— Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters • Edwin L. Sabin