Usually means: Binding or reinforcing with tendons.
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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word sinewing:

General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. sinewing: Merriam-Webster
  2. sinewing: Wiktionary
  3. sinewing: Dictionary.com
  4. Sinewing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. Sinewing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  6. sinewing: FreeDictionary.org
  7. sinewing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinewing: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sinewing: Medical dictionary

(Note: See sinew as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sinew)

noun:  (anatomy) A cord or tendon of the body.
noun:  A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
noun:  (figuratively) Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
noun:  (figuratively, often in the plural) That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
noun:  (anatomy, obsolete) A nerve.
verb:  (transitive) To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
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