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Beetling

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows. not-comparable

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

Adjective
  1. 1
    jutting or overhanging wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
  2. 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. 1
    present participle and gerund of beetle form-of, gerund, participle, present

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