From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthicksetthick‧set /ˌθɪkˈset◂/ adjective HBHhaving a wide strong body SYN stocky a short thickset man
Examples from the Corpus
thickset• The man was thickset and heavy, like a rugby player, the woman thin and bony.• At thirty-two, Frank was thickset and looked shorter than his five feet ten inches.• The body is heavy and fairly thickset, and the contrasting skin surface markings consist of zigzag or diamond-shaped patterns.• Large thickset birds, with necks relatively longer than most ducks, and legs comparatively short.• He speaks emphatically, does Robert Bruck, his bald head bobbing atop a thickset frame.• Raymo was at the fold-out table, a thickset man with a wide mustache. 