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 Translation for 'sinew' from English to Latin
NOUN   a sinew | sinews
SYNO brawn | brawniness | heftiness | ...
anat.
nervus {m}
sinew
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Translation for 'sinew' from English to Latin

sinew
nervus {m}anat.
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Usage Examples English
  • Sinew was widely used throughout pre-industrial eras as a tough, durable fiber.
  • Ptolemy's "Geography" (2nd century AD) described a river called Σηνος ("Sēnos") from PIE *"sai"-/"sei"- ‘to bind’, the root of English "sinew" and Irish "sin" ‘collar’, referring to the long and sinuous estuary leading up to Limerick.
  • The primary weapon of the Mongol forces was their composite bows made from laminated horn, wood, and sinew.
  • The bow is round in cross section, and the string is two ply sinew.
  • Snowshoes are made by lashing reindeer sinew and hide strips to a tennis racket-shaped birch bark or willow hoop.

  • The core is bamboo with sinew backed to prevent the bow breaking and to add a pulling strength to the limbs, with oak at the handle.
  • long and stringed with animal-sinew. Archers in the Aztec army were designated as "Tequihua".
  • "SA" in the "Epic of Gilgamesh" is a logogram for Akkadian "Šer'ānu", translated as: "muscle, sinew".
  • A looped string of sinew is looped around each athlete's ear.
  • Tendon (also with means "sinew" or "thread" "yualuq" sg "yualuit" pl or "eglu ~ egluq" in Yup'ik, "ivalu ~ ivaluq" in Cup'ik and Egegik Yup'ik, "iwalu" in Cup'ig) are made of thick, closely packed bundles of collagen fibers.

  • Though the early history of the Eskimo yo-yo is not recorded, Eskimos maintain that this game originated as an important and widely used hunting tool made simply with sinew and bones, the bola.
  • Ham hock, gammon hock, or knuckle, is the back end of the joint, and contains more connective tissue and sinew.
  • Other unrelated versions include "qilumitautit", the "bolas" of the Inuit, made of sinew and bone weights and used to capture water birds.
  • The German anatomist Heinrich Wilhelm Waldeyer introduced the term "neuron" in 1891, based on the ancient Greek νεῦρον "neuron" 'sinew, cord, nerve'.
  • Once the baby had crowned and was born, the midwife would cut the still-pulsating umbilical cord with a special knife and tie it with caribou sinew.

  • North Alaskan Inupiat bullroarers are known as "imigluktaaq" or "imigluktaun" and described as toy noise-maker of bone or wood and braided sinew (wolf-scare).
  • Babiche is a type of cord or lacing of rawhide or sinew traditionally made by Native Americans.
  • The sinew, soaked in animal glue, is then laid in layers on the back of the bow; the strands of sinew are oriented along the length of the bow.
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