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Definition of Stockily
1. Adverb. So as to be stocky. "He was stockily built"
Definition of Stockily
1. Adverb. In a stocky manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stockily
1. in a stocky manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stockily
Literary usage of Stockily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner (1918)
"The clerk was engaged in earnest conversation with a stockily built man of middle
age. ... inquired the stockily built man. "Rather tall, smooth shaven, ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... with a white flare on his face), and Burnett's "Gyp,* a pure white bitch low
on the legs and stockily built, not unlike the old-fashioned bull-terrier. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It is smaller than the European wildcat, stockily built, has a moderately long
tail and a coat of long hair. The general color is yellowish white, ..."
4. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1901)
"Because of the greater abundance and length of its pelage this animal seems very
stockily built, but this is not the case. ..."
5. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"On the other side were a middle-aged, stockily built man known as "Billy," or "the
missionary's man," and his wife, with two girls ..."
6. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"Before she had done so, however, an alert young fellow, stockily built, caught
Mademoiselle's other arm, and drew her back to the pavement and Nurse ..."
7. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"She was not tall, was stockily built, had a thick neck, rather heavy features,
an opaque complexion and dull eyes. She wore her blackish hair cut in a ..."
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