1. sinew - Noun
2. sinew - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. Ingmar Bergman
He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars. Jack London
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. Sylvia Plath
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
He is like a hyena's sinew. Maasai Proverb
Money is the sinew of war. Dutch Proverb