Definitions for thew

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Spelling: [thyoo]
IPA: /θyu/

Thew is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in thew (ehtw).

Definitions for thew

noun

  1. Usually, thews. muscle or sinew.
  2. thews, physical strength.

Origin of thew

before 900; Middle English; Old English thēaw custom, usage; cognate with Old High German thau (later dau) discipline; akin to Latin tuērī to watch

Examples for thew

Nick, larger than his brother, was a tower of thew and muscle.

Thou art a man of many inches—of thew and sinew—Hey, but thou art a man!

When this is so, the thew or servus is like to appear as the unfreest of persons rather than as no person but a thing.

An unseen power lifted him from his bed, thew him across the room, and tossed him from one side of the room to the other.

And she thew herself into Ralph's arms, while the tears of sorrow were quickly turned to tears of joy.

The climber here tastes the full enjoyment of an encounter with untamed nature, which calls every thew and sinew into action.

Alice Sheltoir, charged with being a common scold—to the thew.

But do not count us by what we are in thew and muscle, but by what our summons can do among our countrymen.

He is the thew of the Anglo-Saxon dooms, the servus of the ecclesiastical canons.

The man who labours with thew and sinew at horse labour—crane labour—not for himself, but for others, is not the man who saves.

Word Value for thew
Scrable

10

Words with friends

9

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