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a. (alternative spelling of heavyset English)
Usage examples of "heavy-set".
I thought I was going to be flattened like a mudfish when a heavy-set carter swung around toward me, fists clenched, but someone appeared at my elbow out of nowhere and dropped the man with a heavy shoulder straight in the stones that suggested a personal interest.
There was a something in the heavy-set Brinker that egged you on, that made you want to needle him.
The cook, Leo Frey, a peaceful-looking man of about forty with a thin body but a prominent belly and fat face, and the cook's sour-looking, heavy-set assistant, called simply Passey, dolloped gruel into xyla bowls and handed each of us a thick slice of river celery.
A moment later the large, heavy-set woman standing beside Captain Paran approached the table.
He was a heavy-set, grizzled man, face weathered and eyes crow-footed by a lifetime at sea.
For now she saw that the family from the next house, the Steiners, had appeared on their front porch and were preparing to approach the ditch rider: all six of them, father and heavy-set mother and the four blonde, round, noisy Steiner girls.
Rincewind was pretty sure there weren't any trolls here, because it was probably too hot for them and anyway there wouldn't be enough room for them on the driftwood, what with all those camels, but these men definitely had the heavy-set look of men who occupy the kind of job where the entrance examination is 'What is your name?
Chub Downey, displaying remarkable agility for such a heavy-set teenager, scaled the juniper like a monkey and, pulling the antenna wire taut, secured his guy rope around a projecting limb.
Clamped under the heavy-set woman's bare right foot was a king cobra, its jet black body immobile and erect, its head flat, its small eyes steady, hypnotized by the constantly moving crowds.
He looked at the Marques, judging that such a heavy-set man would be slow on his feet.
He was a heavy-set man in his mid to late thirties and had the unmistakable air of the military in his stance.
Heavy-set, glaring-eyed lady writers spat upon slim and stylish lady millionairesses who had hurried back from Europe for the crisis.
A heavy-set woman in a mink coat came through the revolving doors.
The heavy-set Chinese major and the cold, precise doctor leaped out of the car and raced towards the entrance.
The guard redrew her sword, but when I recognized the entering Queen (now about fifty, heavy-set and light-mustached, tricked out in armor and accompanied by the same young Amazon who'd left the scene of my capture), I stood up and cried, "Anteia!