thickset

adjective

1. set thickly or in close arrangement; dense: a thickset hedge.
2. studded, or furnished thickly; closely packed: a sky thickset with stars.
3. heavily or solidly built; stocky: a thickset young man.

noun

4. a thicket.

adjective

1. stocky in build; sturdy
2. densely planted or placed

noun

3. a rare word for thicket

adj.mid-14c., thikke sette “with parts or things set close together” (of grass on a sward, etc.), from thick + set (v.). Meaning “stocky, strong and square-built” is recorded from 1724.