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sinew noun [ ˈsɪnjuː ]

• a piece of tough fibrous tissue uniting muscle to bone; a tendon or ligament.
• "the sinews in her neck"
Origin: Old English sin(e)we ‘tendon’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zeen and German Sehne .

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