Of metals, esp. precious metals, and metal objects: occurring in mass; solid and weighty; wrought in solid pieces; not hollow, plated, or alloyed.

Strong in body; of powerful build. Now only U.S. dialect.

Stout, sturdy, massively built, corpulent; of large body or trunk.

Large of body. Obsolete.

Of a person: large, heavily built, physically imposing. Of a part of the body, or the features of the face, etc.: heavily modelled, conspicuously…

Heavy, heavily built; weighty. Cf. peisy, adj.

Big and vigorous; strapping. (Originally used more generally, but later only as an epithet of a fine, healthy, strong child.)

Of persons or animals. Big-bodied, corpulent, burly. (Now only dialect) †the Gross: transl. of French le Gros as an epithet of certain Frankish…

Of persons or animals: of more than the usual size, large or bulky of body, corpulent. †Of soldiers: Heavily armed or equipped.

burly-boned, burly-headed, adjs.

Chiefly of a person: burly, big-bodied. Cf. mastiff, adj.1 2.

Ponderous in movement, inconveniently bulky. literal and figurative.

Resembling a giant or his qualities.

Of persons or their stature: Having the proportions of a giant; resembling a giant in size, etc.

Of a person: burly, big-bodied; = masty, adj. 1b.

Of persons: Massively built. Hence, corpulent, stout, fat.

Large; stout, burly.

dialect. Unusually big; burly.

transferred. Slang phr. beef to the heel(s): of a person: massive, bulky, brawny.

Weighty, heavy; hard, grievous. Also, large or significant in size, and as adverb, ‘powerfully’, exceedingly.