body-builder

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternative form of bodybuilder (“one who builds a muscular physique”).

   • The Gymnasium prospectus may have reached you before this meets your eye; at all events we hope you will give it a careful perusal, and mentally resolve to join the host of body-builders that is growing in numbers every day.
   • Leonard DaLuz, a 26-year-old muscular body-builder, was crowned “Mr. Rock Hill” to highlight the 1961 Rock Hill Weight Lifting Championships and physique contest Saturday night at the Stadium Hut.
2. 2

   Something that is beneficial to the body.

   • Do not imagine I am not in sympathy with the game. I am, most heartily, with this and most out-of-door sports. I am only combating a prevailing belief that they are beneficial body-builders.
   • It is not a drug; it is a pre-digested food, and is absorbed at once. Strength, plumpness and digestive tone follows its use immediately. It is a body-builder, pleasant to the taste, and soon enables you to digest any food.
3. 3

   One who builds vehicle bodies.

   • WANTED, a good BODY-BUILDER and WHEEL-WRIGHT.
   • He was a body-builder by trade, and was apprenticed to Mr. Hornsby, at Grantham, and was making his way to Bury to try and get work at Mr. Boby’s; […]
   • WANTED—A BODY-BUILDER—STEADY EMployment given to a competent man

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