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Having heavy limbs.

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Usage examples (17)
  • He was as tall as Conan, though not so heavy-limbed.
  • We made love like people underwater, heavy-limbed and slow.
  • He interested me as his type always does -- a fine upstanding fellow he was; over six feet tall, broad-shouldered, narrow-hipped, heavy-limbed, the perfect fighting man,...
  • One is large-boned and heavy-limbed, hoarse-voiced, and masculine, like the “Ibos” of Bonny and New Calabar, who equal the men in weight and stature, strength and...
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