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thew
[ thyoo ]
noun
- Usually thews. muscle or sinew.
- thews, physical strength.
thew
/ θjuː /
noun
- muscle, esp if strong or well-developed
- plural muscular strength
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Derived Forms
- ˈthewless, adjective
- ˈthewy, adjective
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Other Words From
- thewy adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thew1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thew1
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Example Sentences
An unseen power lifted him from his bed, thew him across the room, and tossed him from one side of the room to the other.
This is, of course, no argument against the poems now-we mean it only as against the poets thew.
Alice Sheltoir, charged with being a common scold—to the thew.
When this is so, the thew or servus is like to appear as the unfreest of persons rather than as no person but a thing.
What is more, we may say that every man who was not a thew was in some definite legal sense a free man.
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