English-Finnish translations for thickset

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Definition of thickset

• Having a relatively short, heavy build
• Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted
• Densely covered (''with'something
• A thick hedge
• A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.Thomas McElrath, ''A Dictionary of Words and Phrases Used in Commerce,'New York: Taintor Brothers, 1871, p.535.^{[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofword00mcel]}
• A piece of clothing made from this fabric

Examples

• a thickset, muscular figure; a thickset workhorse
• a thickset wood; a thickset hedge
• a gully thickset with brambles

Related words

• thick
• thickness
• thicket
• thickening
• thickly
• thicken
• thick-skinned
• thickener
• thickened
• thickheaded