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the body's cabling, tougher than the muscle it tethers and the reason ancient bows shot farther.
means A tough fibrous cord of tissue connecting muscle to bone — a tendon — or, more loosely, the strength and structural toughness of anything.
from From Old English 'sinu' or 'seonu,' the word for tendon or nerve, with deep roots across the Germanic languages (compare Dutch 'zenuw' and German 'Sehne'). It likely traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to bind' or 'to tie' — fitting, since a sinew is exactly the cord that binds muscle to bone.
- bow tech
- Composite bows used sinew to store deadly draw energy
- old glue
- Boiled sinew makes powerful natural adhesive
- tensile beast
- Tendons resist stretching better than steel by weight
- word root
- Means strength itself, hence sinews of power
- sutures
- Surgeons once stitched wounds with animal sinew
for instance
achilles tendon — connects calf muscle to heel bone in humans, strongest tendon in the body
bow sinew — animal tendon used to string composite bows in medieval and traditional archery