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Adjective: beetling  beet-ling or bee-tu-ling
  1. Jutting or overhanging
    "beetling brows";
    - beetle
Verb: beetle  bee-t(u)l
  1. Be suspended over or hang over
    "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town";
    - overhang
     
  2. [informal] To move about or proceed hurriedly
    "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home";
    - scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle, scutter [Brit]
     
  3. Beat with a beetle
    "They beetled the laundry to remove excess water"

See also: protrusive

Type of: beat, go, hang, locomote, move, run, travel

Encyclopedia: Beetling

Beetle, Kentucky