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c1325 Lai le Freine 249 He was stout, of gret renoun And was y-cleped Sir Guroun.

a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 869 Nicholas of cartage Hardy man stout & sauage.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1184 Stoffed wyth-inne with stout men to stalle hem þer-oute.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 393 Thocht he wes stout and hardy..Thar mycht na worschip thar awailȝe.

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Stoute or aduenturous, audaculus.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. H7^v Greiue replied the stout couragious Citizen, yea euen I.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y3^v Stout Bunduca.

1595 Phrases Lat. Aldi Manutii 106 Fortis pro salute patriæ. Stout in the quarrell, or valiant for the safe~guard of his countrey.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iii. viii. 19 A stouter Champion neuer handled Sword. View more context for this quotation

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 191 They [sc. these defects] take Place in the Stoutest Natures: As in the Example of Henry the Seuenth..: There was not a more Suspicious Man, nor a more Stout.

1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. v. 87 In this sence we call all souldiers stout, and sometimes call imprudent and rash persons stout, when we speak not of the perfect Vertues.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Westmorl. 136 That Stout Prelate who when the Scots invaded England..utterly routed and ruined them.

1690 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §96 (1693) 114 Some Men by the unalterable Frame of their Constitutions are Stout, others Timorous.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xviii. 216 Cowards are generally stout when Dangers are at a Distance, and so was our General, who had never seen a Sword drawn in Anger.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain II. viii. 172 Legends the most wild are related of the manner in which the stout soldier fell.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 647 His arm had been..shattered in the battle; and, as no surgeon was at hand, the stout old soldier amputated it himself.

1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxvii I have heard that he is a very stout and skilful soldier.

1919 J. Buchan Mr. Standfast ix. 170 You're going to be a stout fellow and start in two hours' time. And you're going to take me with you.

1922 J. Buchan Huntingtower iv. 76 ‘I got inside the House.’ ‘Stout fellow,’ said Heritage.

1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 35 I lay behind this stout fellow and saw him well into the open.