Beetling

Quick meaning: Beetling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of beetle.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of beetle.

More Meanings

1. The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
2. A jutting or protrusion.
3. Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.

Example Sentences

The beetling head of the cliff projected over the cane-brake.

As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face.

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:—

Put a clay pipe in [Richard] Nixon’s mouth and a hod on his shoulder or a shillelagh in his hand, and there, complete with beetling brows and uptilted nose, is the original of the old cartoon stereotype of the fighting Irishman—the Irishman of the draft riots or of Punch’s version of the Sinn Feiner.

Word Forms

• beetlings

Synonyms for beetling

Depending on context, synonyms include protrusive, beetle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include protrusive, crag, batten, beadbeater, goldbeating, beadmaking.

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