BEETLING

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Definition

verb
  1. To move away quickly, to scurry away.
    “He beetled off on his vacation.”
verb
  1. To loom over; to extend or jut.
    “The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.”
verb
  1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
  2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
    “to beetle cotton goods”
noun
  1. The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
adjective
  1. Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.

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