Also, the bevelling of any piece of timber or plank to any required angle: as the bearding of dead wood, clamps, &c.
In ship-building, is a curved line made by bearding the dead-wood to the shape of the ship's body.
I horsewhipped him for insolence; for beardingme to my face.
But an hour or two, as it seemed, and he had been bearding Mr. Chattaway at the mine.
He felt that he ought to read the poem in a desert, out by the Polar Sea, down on the Amazon, yonder at Nukualofa; that it would fit in with bearding the Spaniards two hundred years ago.
Bearding the Spaniards-- what did he mean by that?
Nay, these be evil days, I say again; and more strange things may come to pass than bearding a lordly abbot in his den!
This daring presumption--this wilful outrage, so like bidding defiance to his power, bearding the lion even in his den, was deemed an offence calling for signal vengeance upon the perpetrators.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bearding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
