present participle and gerund of beetle
The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet.
A jutting or protrusion.
These gave place at last to things less and less unspeakable; till at last, from beneath the very brow of the beetlings and the menacings of the Terror Stone came the audible words of Pierre:—
Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows.
As I anticipated, we had passed right through the precipice, and were now on the farther side, and immediately beneath its beetling face.
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