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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thickset
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At thirty-two, Frank was thickset and looked shorter than his five feet ten inches.
▪ He speaks emphatically, does Robert Bruck, his bald head bobbing atop a thickset frame.
▪ Large thickset birds, with necks relatively longer than most ducks, and legs comparatively short.
▪ Raymo was at the fold-out table, a thickset man with a wide mustache.
▪ The body is heavy and fairly thickset, and the contrasting skin surface markings consist of zigzag or diamond-shaped patterns.
▪ The man was thickset and heavy, like a rugby player, the woman thin and bony.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thickset

Thickset \Thick"set`\, n.

  1. A close or thick hedge.

  2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
    --McElrath.

Thickset

Thickset \Thick"set`\, a.

  1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
    --Dryden.

  2. Having a short, thick body; stout.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thickset

also thick-set, late 14c., thikke sette "with parts or things set close together" (of grass on a sward, etc.), from thick + set (v.). Meaning "stocky, strong and square-built" is recorded from 1724.

Wiktionary
thickset

a. 1 Having a short, heavy build; stout. 2 Closely planted. n. 1 A thick hedge. 2 A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.

WordNet
thickset

  1. adj. heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick]

  2. planted or growing close together; "thickset trees"

Usage examples of "thickset".

A short thickset man of vaguely oriental appearance, he was of that mixed Hawaiian and Caucasian ancestry that in his birthplace is called hapa haoli.

Not wishing to risk Karolus on the boggy ground, he was riding another of his horses, a thickset bay who went by the rather unflattering name of Hognose, but who had excellent manners and a steady foot.

Enfants Rouge, where he sat scraping chicken tagine from a pot while he watched a Sudanese boy argue with a thickset girl who looked half Arab, half something else.

Arnold Protter was a thickset round-shouldered man in his late thirties with the ample belly of a beer drinker and the red nose of a whiskey drinker.

Moresby was a thickset, aggressive little man who showed little interest in Anduaga's more sensitive feelings, and ploughed through the planned arrangements with the stubbornness of a bull terrier.

He saw the thickset Chinese, Fong, following Cudahy like a patient dog, and he wondered again why the man had been sent aboard to be trained in the ways of a captain, and why the Tai-Pan had put one of the heathen aboard each of his clippers.

He was a thickset man with a penchant for glenurquhart plaid suits and meerschaum pipes.

Mom kept exclaiming how delicious everything was, asking who'd baked the bread (Marianne) and who'd made the lentil soup (a thickset boy named Birk) and was the spinach macaroni made on the premises (it was, by a girl named Edie) and she promised to send the Co-op some raspberry preserves she'd canned, and some Bartlett pears from her orchard.

When their vision adjusted they made out a short, thickset old goblin with long, prominent teeth.

He risked another peek from Michelle's pocket and saw that Vanessa, the mustached man whom he now knew to be Garsten, and the thickset one they called Andy, had left.

Most important, in his sophomore year he met Edmund Starke, a short, thickset, reticent man with rimless glasses who taught the physics class.

He winked at the copilot, a thickset Brazilian whose over muscled physique suggested he spent a lot of time pumping iron.

He stopped before a thickset man who had the look of Lhazar about him and brought his whip up sharply, laying a line of blood across one copper cheek.