brawn

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: OF. braon fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. brāto flesh, G. braten roast meat; akin to Icel. br… flesh, food of beasts, AS. br…de roast meat, br…dan to roast, G. braten, and possibly to E. breed.

1. A muscle; flesh. obsolete

Formed well of brawns and of bones.— Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.

Brawn without brains is thine.— John Dryden

It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand.— Edward Hall

And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn.— William Shakespeare

3. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.

The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn.— John Mortimer

4. A boar. obsolete Francis, & Fletcher, John. Beaumont

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54