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After being thoroughly cleaned the rolls or strikes were sometimes beetled, that is, pounded in a wooden trough with a great pestle-shaped beetle over and over again until soft.

Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

With beetled brow, sour humor and a curmudgeonly look at life, Rooney has become a media staple.

Five People Born on January 14 | myFiveBest 2010

And he puffed out his cheeks and beetled his brows at me.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Andy was back real skorry, waving the great shiny white sleeve of the Ninth, which had on it, brothers, the frowning beetled like thunderbolted litso of Ludwig van him - self.

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

He lifted the bag of diamonds and turned it upside down with one surprisingly swift movement: like little cockroaches, the jewels escaped and beetled off in all directions: “There, ya snuffling swine, truffles fer ya!”

At a Welsh Wedding 2010

The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

MacKenzie was much taken with the idea and beetled round to BBC1's This Week, where he told Andrew Neil the news on air.

Murdoch steps down from the fight 2008

Avram was a dedicated communist with a beetled brow and he spat little word-flecks of contempt at the U.S., the system is corrupt, we will eat you for lunch, you are a what-do-you-call-it kind of culture, a mickey mouse culture, and that night Marvin had to make an emergency visit to the hotel toilet, where he unleashed a firewall of chemical waste.

Underworld Don Delillo 2008

MacKenzie was much taken with the idea and beetled round to BBC1's This Week, where he told Andrew Neil the news on air.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

The cottage was situated immediately under a tall rock, which in some measure beetled over it, as if threatening to drop some detached fragment from its brow on the frail tenement beneath.

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008