Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Brawny; strong: as, “brawned bowrs,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Brawny; strong; muscular.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
brawn . - adjective obsolete
brawny ;strong ;muscular
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Examples
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Men whose brawned arms upraised these columns high,
Washington's Birthday Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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Men whose brawned arms upraised these columns high, 25
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In cast of face he recalls Tennyson somewhat, though more bronzed and brawned.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892
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6 His raw-boned arms, whose mighty brawned bowers raw-boned > {Gaunt; having projecting bones} brawned bowers > brawny muscles
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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