thickset

Adjective

 * 1) Having a relatively short, heavy build.
 * 2) Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted.
 * 3) * 1581, (translator),  in  His Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, Act 2, p.48,
 * let me be allowde
 * To lurke behinde this Craggy Rocke, or els my selfe to hyde
 * On backside of some thickset hedge:
 * 1) * 1612,, , London: M. Lownes et al., Song 1, p.11,
 * Corineus ran
 * With slaughter through the thick-set squadrons of the foes;
 * 1) Densely covered (with something).
 * 2) * 1583,, , 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:
 * 1) Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted.
 * 2) * 1581, (translator),  in  His Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, Act 2, p.48,
 * let me be allowde
 * To lurke behinde this Craggy Rocke, or els my selfe to hyde
 * On backside of some thickset hedge:
 * 1) * 1612,, , London: M. Lownes et al., Song 1, p.11,
 * Corineus ran
 * With slaughter through the thick-set squadrons of the foes;
 * 1) Densely covered (with something).
 * 2) * 1583,, , 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:
 * Corineus ran
 * With slaughter through the thick-set squadrons of the foes;
 * 1) Densely covered (with something).
 * 2) * 1583,, , 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:
 * 1) Densely covered (with something).
 * 2) * 1583,, , 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:
 * 1) * 1583,, , 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:
 * in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: pönäkkä
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Kabuverdianu: rokotó
 * Maori: pūngerungeru
 * Ottoman Turkish: یوغون, ایری
 * Turkish: ,
 * Yoruba: síngbọnlẹ̀


 * Bulgarian: гъсто засаден

Noun

 * 1)  A thick hedge.
 * 2) * 1858, (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.
 * 1)  A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
 * 2) * 1812,, 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;
 * 1) * 1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” , New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p.12,
 * His breeches were of the homeliest thickset;
 * 1)  A piece of clothing made from this fabric.