Definition of Sinew

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Definition of Sinew
	Sinew A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon. Muscle; nerve. Fig.: That which supplies strength or power. To knit together, or make strong with, or as with, sinews. Related Definitions: As, Fig, Knit, Make, Muscle, Nerve, Or, Power, See, Strength, Strong, Supplies, Tendon, Tendonous, That, Tissue, To, Together, Which, With

Sinew Quotations

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
Rudyard Kipling

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
Andrew Jackson

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
Ingmar Bergman

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.
Countee Cullen

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Patricia Neal

Sinew Translations

sinew in French is tendon
sinew in German is Sehne
sinew in Swedish is sena

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