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n. - Possessing muscular strength.

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Usage examples (33)
  • Upon the second period, that which I call the brawn in his life, these exercises will not permit me long to dwell.
  • During the Middle Ages, wild boar—also known as brawn—crowned the Christmas feast.
  • People think in farming community you don't need a brain, only brawn, which is why Gandhi said you must marry intellect and labor.
  • Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart
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