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beetling::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | beetle |
Examples of beetling
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The main different types of finishes are beetling, watered, embossing and Scheiner.
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Beetling is a finish given to cotton and linensan cloth, and makes it look like satin.
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At Roberto Cavalli, dark, smoky eyes were framed with equally moody, even beetling, brows.
From the independent.co.uk
With his heavy jowls and beetling eyebrows, he projects little charisma.
From the time.com
But experienced up close, in the jury box, under the judge's beetling eye, it can be daunting.
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What if he comes back with rounded earlobes or a beetling brow?
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In the beetling process the fabric goes over wooden rollers and is beaten with wooden hammers.
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Stuck behind someone beetling along at 25kmh?
From the stuff.co.nz
On July 11th Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, was beetling around shaking hands with all who dared cross her path.
From the economist.com
- Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- Jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"
- Overhang: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
- Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
- Mallet: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
- Beat with a beetle
- See subgroups of the order Coleoptera
- The Beetle ASIC is an analog readout chip. It is developed for the LHCb experiment at CERN.
- The Beetle is the name of two comic book characters owned by Marvel Comics who exist within the fictional Marvel Universe. It is also the name of the three versions of high tech armor used by five separate characters.
