1. So as to be stocky
   "he was stockily built"

See also: stocky

• a cappella singing
• a couple of
• a dime a dozen
• a few
• a fortiori
• a good deal
• a great deal
• a hundred times
• a Kempis
• a la mode
• A level
• a little
• a lot
• a million times
• a month of Sundays
• a posteriori
• a priori
• A road
• a trifle
• A'man
• A-bomb
• A-frame
• A-horizon
• A-list
• a-ok