thickset
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈθɪkˌsɛt/
adj
Etymology: From thick + set.
- Having a relatively short, heavy build.
“a thickset, muscular figure”
“a thickset workhorse”
- Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted.
“a thickset wood”
“a thickset hedge”
- Densely covered (with something).
“a gully thickset with brambles”
“1583, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London: John Day, Book 4, “The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand,” p. 177, […] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:”
noun
Etymology: From thick + set.
- A thick hedge.
“1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294, Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave.”
- A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
“1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73, When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue, Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;”
“1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12, His breeches were of the homeliest thickset;”
- A piece of clothing made from this fabric.
“[…] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;”
“I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.”