All 5 Uses of
tendon
in
Moby Dick
- All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.†
Chpt 16-18
- Take away the tied tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its charm would be gone.†
Chpt 85-87
- It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.†
Chpt 85-87 *
- It is tough with congealed tendons—a wad of muscle—but still contains some oil.†
Chpt 94-96
- The wide tiers of welded tendons overspreading his broad white forehead, beneath the transparent skin, looked knitted together; as head on, he came churning his tail among the boats; and once more flailed them apart; spilling out the irons and lances from the two mates' boats, and dashing in one side of the upper part of their bows, but leaving Ahab's almost without a scar.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(tendon) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone