body-builder

Alternative form of bodybuilder (“one who builds a muscular physique”).

An excellent example, showing the possibility of the development of the muscles of the back, which are commonly neglected, is that of Professor Robert J. Roberts, the noted body-builder now connected with the gymnasium of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Boston.

The Gymnasium prospectus may have reached you before this meets your eye; at all events we hope you will give it a careful perusal, and mentally resolve to join the host of body-builders that is growing in numbers every day.

Something that is beneficial to the body.

Do not imagine I am not in sympathy with the game. I am, most heartily, with this and most out-of-door sports. I am only combating a prevailing belief that they are beneficial body-builders.

It is not a drug; it is a pre-digested food, and is absorbed at once. Strength, plumpness and digestive tone follows its use immediately. It is a body-builder, pleasant to the taste, and soon enables you to digest any food.

One who builds vehicle bodies.

WANTED, a good BODY-BUILDER and WHEEL-WRIGHT.

He was a body-builder by trade, and was apprenticed to Mr. Hornsby, at Grantham, and was making his way to Bury to try and get work at Mr. Boby’s; […]