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well-built

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adjective

  1. large or ample

    a well-built lady

  2. having a good, strong construction

    well-built houses
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Well built Tibetan houses were leveled to the ground and their timbers reduced to gigantic heaps of matchwood.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I see you have my boat, little Disaster. Well built, isn’t it? You have to remember to bail it out every morning, though. I never did get all the cracks filled.”

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

Well built water-towers about 30 feet high at all stations for watering engines.

From Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail by Ready, Oliver George

Well built stone houses replaced the huts; glossy-leaved orange trees and pink-blossomed almond trees dotted the fields or filled the orchards.

From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie

Well built and well found—many a successful voyage had she made to far distant seas.

From The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book by Unknown

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