BRAWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brawn mean? 

• BRAWN (noun)
  The noun BRAWN has 1 sense:

1. possessing muscular strength

  Familiarity information: BRAWN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAWN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Possessing muscular strength

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

brawn; brawniness; heftiness; muscle; muscularity; sinew

Hypernyms ("brawn" is a kind of...):

strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)

Derivation:

brawny ((of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful)

 Context examples 

“And now, fair sir, I must hasten back to see how my rogues have fared with the brawn.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A pair of cold capons, a mortress of brawn, or what you will, with a flask or two of the right Gascony.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had but sat down to a flask of malvoisie and a mortress of brawn, as is my use about this hour, when there comes a cherking, and I find my wine over my legs and the flask in my lap, and then as I stoop to clip it there comes another cursed cherk, and there is a mortress of brawn stuck fast to the nape of my neck.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)