What does broad-beamed mean?

broad-beamed

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English

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"1969, Philip K. Dick, Ubik, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston: 2012, p 171. ' "May I use your phone book? he asked the broad-beamed, middle-aged proprietor. "In the rear," the proprietor said amiably, with a jerk of his heavy thumb.'"

more broad-beamed (comparative) most broad-beamed (superlative) broad across the beam (alternative) broad in the beam (alternative)

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