beetling
adjective
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adj
- Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.
“As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face.”
“The beetling head of the cliff projected over the cane-brake.”
noun
- The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
- A jutting or protrusion.
“These gave place at last to things less and less unspeakable; till at last, from beneath the very brow of the beetlings and the menacings of the Terror Stone came the audible words of Pierre:—”
verb
- present participle and gerund of beetle