One way to hold brawn is as a thick piece of flesh. Not a shape on a plan, but real meat with weight in it — the heavy muscle across a shoulder, the solid part of a leg. Everything the word does comes back to that piece of flesh: on a living body it is the power to lift and push; on a kitchen table it is food.
From the word’s history
Middle English brawne comes from Old French braon, a slice of meat or the fleshy part of the body, and behind that a Germanic word for roast meat. The meat came first; the strength reading grew out of it.
brawn 來自中古英文 brawne，再往前是古法文 braon，意思是「一塊肉、身上肉厚的部位」，更早則連到日耳曼語裡「烤肉」的字。所以順序是先有肉，後有力氣：先指身上那塊結實的肉，才慢慢變成那塊肉能發出的力量。
Wiktionary entry for brawn (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1002307745), supplied in the evidence packet
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