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Built for comfort is British slang for a fat person.
Built is slang for physically well−developed.
A method of constructing wooden hulls by fixing planks to a frame so that the planks butt up against each other. ie. "clinker built".
person well built ‘He’s built like a brick
BANTER PLAY BUILT ON A COKE FRAME
Banter play built on a coke frame is Black−American slang for an attractive young woman.
Built like a brick shithouse is slang for strongly or solidly built.
Well built physiologically [" David is built like a brick shithouse."].
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Built at, in, or by the sea.
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Built like a frigate with a raised quarter-deck and forecastle.
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Literally, God's house; a temple, usually of pyramidal form, such as were built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc.
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A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually extending from the shore to deep water, so that vessels may lie close alongside to receive and discharge cargo, passengers, etc.; a quay; a pier.
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Built of, or in, the clouds; airy; unsubstantial; imaginary.
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Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.
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Formed; shaped; constructed; made; -- often used in composition and preceded by the word denoting the form; as, frigate-built, clipper-built, etc.
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An assemblage of members of wood or metal, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points, with the least possible strain across the length of any member. Architectural trusses when left visible, as in open timber roofs, often contain members not needed for construction, or are built with greater massiveness than is requisite, or are composed in unscientific ways in accordance with the exigencies of style.
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Something set or built under as a support; a pedestal.
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Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect.
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Not tilled, cultivated, or built upon; yielding no revenue; as, unimproved land or soil.
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See Clinker-built.
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Built; formed; contrived.
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Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.
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A light carriage built for rapid motion; -- called also tim-whiskey.
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Not founded; not built or established.
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A house for locomotive engines, built circularly around a turntable.
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A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
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Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.
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Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.
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