Crossword clues for beetling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beetled (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Beetling.]
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of beetle English)
WordNet
adj. jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle]
Wikipedia
Beetling is the pounding of linen or cotton fabric to give a flat, lustrous effect.
Usage examples of "beetling".
In the other direction, Troy's towers and beetling walls seemed to glower down at us from across the plain.
Campfires dotted the darkness, and off in the distance the beetling towers of Troy bulked black and menacing against the moon-bright sky.
His large, square head seemed almost all jutting jaw and beetling brow.
Sweat formed on Minnum's beetling brow and began to roll into his eyes.
Facing that way, Gale saw dark, beetling ridges rising from the oasis and leading up to bare, black mountains.
Another hour brought him abreast of a dark, straight shaft rising clear from a beetling escarpment.
It had apparently unscalable slopes of weathered rock leading up to beetling walls.
His eyes, in fact, were on a level with the scout's, but where Kenton's forehead rose, his sloped smoothly back from beetling brow ridges.
Above Joe's deep-set eyes was only a beetling ridge of bone that retreated smoothly toward the back of his head.
A couple of policemen had watched us beetling around and they were likely to halt us soon, if only to stop themselves getting dizzy.
The helmets gave them a beetling warrior look, but most of them were young and had the same German faces he had seen in Munich and Frankfurt.
The beetling line of the German helmet gave the farm-boy face a stern, statuesque look.
He saw the General's dark beetling brows come together and the forehead crease like an eroded desert landscape, and Dicky nearly panicked.
Sean cocked a beetling black eyebrow over the amused blue twinkle of his eye.
Now they listened with intensity, Big Harry Fisher, sitting beside him on the dais, turned his head slowly to assess the man, peering at him under beetling eyebrows and with the bulldog folds of his face hanging mournfully.