BEETLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beetling mean? 

• BEETLING (adjective)
  The adjective BEETLING has 1 sense:

1. jutting or overhanging

  Familiarity information: BEETLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEETLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Jutting or overhanging

Synonyms:

beetle; beetling

Context example:

beetle brows

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

The beetling head of the cliff projected over the cane-brake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dim memories he had of beetling cliffs, of a group of huts with wondering faces at the doors, of foaming, clattering water, and of a bristle of mountain beeches.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I could not see any cause for it, for the howling of the wolves had ceased altogether; but just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Long did Alleyne bear the scene in mind—the knot of knights in their dull leaden-hued armor, the ruddy visage of Sir Oliver, the craggy features of the Scottish earl, the shining scalp of Sir Nigel, with the dense ring of hard, bearded faces and the long brown heads of the horses, all topped and circled by the beetling cliffs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)