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SQUARE-BUILT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does square-built mean?
• SQUARE-BUILT (adjective)
The adjective SQUARE-BUILT has 1 sense:
1. broad and solidly built
Familiarity information: SQUARE-BUILT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Broad and solidly built
Similar:
robust (sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction)
Context examples
The new-comer was a stout, square-built man, plainly and almost carelessly dressed, with an uncouth manner and a rolling gait.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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