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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sinewy \Sin"ew*y\, a.
1. Pertaining to consisting of or resembling, a sinew or
sinews.
The sinewy thread my brain lets fall. --Donne.
2. Well braced with or as if with sinews; nervous;
vigorous; strong; firm; tough; as the sinewy Ajax.
A man whose words . . . were so close and sinewy.
--Hare.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sinewy
adj 1: full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: {fibrous},
{stringy}, {unchewable}]
2: consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon [syn: {tendinous}]
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