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beetling

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. 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

  1. The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
  2. 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

  1. present participle and gerund of beetle