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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
- ˈthewy, adjective
- ˈthewless, adjective
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Other Words From
- thewy adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thew1
before 900; Middle English; Old English thēaw custom, usage; cognate with Old High German thau (later dau ) discipline; akin to Latin tuērī to watch
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Word History and Origins
Origin of thew1
Old English thēaw; related to Old Saxon, Old High German thau discipline, Latin tuērī to observe, tūtus secure
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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.
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This is, of course, no argument against the poems now-we mean it only as against the poets thew.
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Alice Sheltoir, charged with being a common scold—to the thew.
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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.
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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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