thickset

Having a relatively short, heavy build.

a thickset, muscular figure

a thickset workhorse

Densely crowded together; made up of things that are densely crowded together; closely planted.

a thickset wood

a thickset hedge

Densely covered (with something).

a gully thickset with brambles

1583, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London: John Day, Book 4, “The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand,” p. 177, […] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:

A thick hedge.

1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294, Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave.

A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.

1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73, When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue, Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;

1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12, His breeches were of the homeliest thickset;

A piece of clothing made from this fabric.

[…] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;

I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.