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Definition of Beetling
1. Adjective. Jutting or overhanging. "Beetle brows"
Definition of Beetling
1. Verb. (present participle of beetle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beetling
1. beetle [v] - See also: beetle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beetling
Literary usage of Beetling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Switzerland: Or, A Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country, in the by Louis Simond (1823)
"... or overhanging branches and withy ropes leading from one beetling shelf to
another, shewed that a strong hand and steady step left nothing inaccessible ..."
2. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... the enormous remains of the coffered vaulting, we should enter the court, over
the inner side of which these ruins hang like a beetling rock of marble. ..."
3. Annual Report on the Geological Survey of the State of Wisconsin by Wisconsin, Wisconsin State Geologist, Wisconsin Geological Survey, State Geologist (1854)
"the sombre depths of primeval forests; and castellated cliffs, rising hundreds
of feet, with beetling crags which a Titan might have piled for his fortress. ..."
4. The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review (1890)
"1 hear thy sullen tide Break 'neath the beetling cliffs with muffled roar.
Afar, afar, 0 moaning Sea, My roving soul still follows thee. ..."
5. The Irish Jurist (1862)
"I can now only consider the question in reference to the particular articles—the
beetling engines—and decide whether they are fixtures or mere chattel« ..."
6. Textiles and Clothing by Ellen Beers McGowan, Charlotte Augusta Waite, A. (1919)
"beetling. — The beetling process is used to give gloss to the surface and, also,
... Some hand woven damasks are still finished by hand beetling. ..."
7. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary by Frank P. Bennett, & Co (1914)
"beetling Process for Finishing. The beetling process for finishing cotton and
linen piece goods ... The first beetling machines were very crude affairs com- ..."
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