νευρά,
Ionic dialect νευρή, ἡ, Epic dialect genitive singular νευρῆφι(ν) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.309, 15.313, 21.113 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— string or cord of sinew, in Epic dialect usually bowstring, ν. ἐϋστρεφής, νεόστροφος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.463, 469; βαρύφθογγος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).34, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1005, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 784, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.2.28, etc.: made from νεῦρον, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 540a19; μύες ἐβοήθησαν διατραγόντες τὰς ν. [prev. author] “Rh.” 1401b16. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 harpstring, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.62. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 strand of a torsion-engine, [[ “IG” 22.554.15. ] Refs]
__4 withe, [[ LXX.Judg.16.7. ] LXX]
__5 wrongly taken by some, ={νεῦρον}, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.328. (Cogn. with νεῦρον.) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]