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Meanings of beetling in English

Jutting or overhanging.

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Usage of beetling in English
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The beetling walls of the fortress were as tho they were not.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and Ge...
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The whole mountain range seemed an immense red barrier of beetling rock.
Tales of lonely trails
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The shadow of a pair of beetling brows rolled darkly over me.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
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All that was missing was a Honda 50 beetling up Lexington Avenue.
The Irish Times
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Small eyes, red and fiery, were set deep under a beetling forehead.
The Path of the King
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Llewellyn's deep-set eyes under the beetling brows were lighting with new fires.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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It is translated; it becomes a mere wraith hovering above the beetling crag.
Time and Change
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Hibbert moving over to stand by the window, frowned deeply, his eyebrows beetling.
Millionaire's women
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There could be no doubt about the beetling forehead, the sunken animal eyes.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
10
To him came one of the hostlers with insolent beetling brow.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Up a narrow lane to merge with the fleet of cars beetling by.
A singular man
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I stared at the future, and saw a big decision beetling before me.
Montlivet
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That beetling cliff was the ally on which Montcalm most depended.
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 / F...
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Of the tall beetling cliff that juts out o'er the deep.
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
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Drawing nearer, they get under the shadow of its beetling bluffs.
The Lone Ranche
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Ratuth Slabuth glared after them, his ivory brow beetling with suspicion.
Johannes cabal the necromancer
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