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View definitions for beetling

beetling

adjective as in hanging

adjective as in projecting

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Mr. Royall stood in the middle of the office, his thick eyebrows beetling, his lower jaw trembling a little.

Overhead loomed the beetling walls of the palace from which the prince had led his people in revolt—manned now by the Jivros.

The superciliary ridges often project and give the beetling brow that is sometimes so remarkable.

A beetling machine of the kind, with four sets of “fallers,” is shown in Fig. 3.

They are then damped on a water mangle, and beamed on to the heavy iron bowl of the beetling machine.

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to beetling, such as: dangling, drooping, jutting, overhanging, pendent, and pendulous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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