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Webster 1828 Edition


Beetling

BEE'TLING

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ppr.
Jutting; being prominent; standing out from the main body.

Definition 2024


beetling

beetling

English

Verb

beetling

  1. present participle of beetle

Noun

beetling (plural beetlings)

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

Adjective

beetling (not comparable)

  1. Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.
    • 1995, Iain Banks, Whit
      If the fire, with its giant black kettle swung over the flames, is our never-extinguished shrine, then the stove is an altar. It is habitually tended by my step-aunt Calliope (usually known as Calli), a dark, stocky, dense-looking woman with beetling black brows and a tied-back sheaf of thick hair, still raven-black without a trace of silver after her forty-four years.