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thew noun [ θjuː ]

• muscular strength.
• "brains and brawn, thought and thew"
Origin: Old English thēaw ‘usage, custom’, (plural) ‘manner of behaving’, of unknown origin. The sense ‘good bodily proportions, muscular development’ arose in Middle English.


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