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sinew

 (n): a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
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about 1 month ago yarb said:

"I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 36

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