Usually means: Tissues connecting muscles to bones.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinews: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinews: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sinews: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sinews: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sinews, sinews: Wordnik
  6. sinews: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sinews: Wiktionary
  8. sinews: Dictionary.com
  9. sinews: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Sinews: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. sinews: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sinews: Legal dictionary

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  1. sinews: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinews: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. sinews: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SINEWS: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sinew)

noun:  (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
noun:  A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
noun:  (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
noun:  (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
noun:  (anatomy, obsolete) A nerve.
verb:  (transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
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