His genital part is confected and standeth upon a sinnew insomuch as thereof a stringe may be made, for the bending of the strongest bow.
-Edward Topsell, History of Four Footed Beasts, On Camels, 1607
I’d heard of tennis rackets strung with cat gut but never long bows strung with camel penis, giving new meaning to the idiom cited by Lane, Ayru Kān Tawīl, He had Many Male Children, literally, His Cock was Tall.