bulleting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of bullet.

   The editor is bulleting each section to make the report easier to skim.

   She spent the afternoon bulleting the proposal into a tidy summary.

   Note

   One -ing form does two jobs for the verb bullet. It is progressive after be (the editor is bulleting each section) and a gerund in noun positions (bulleting makes a report skimmable). It carries every sense of the verb, so context decides whether someone is bulleting a list, bulleting down a corridor, or, in slang, bulleting an employee. The same spelling also names a Scottish road game.

2. 2
   noundialectalScotlanduncountable

   The sport of road bowling, in which players throw a heavy iron ball along a public road over a set course, aiming to finish in the fewest throws.

   Like golf played on open roads, where the winner finishes the course in the fewest throws rather than the fewest strokes.

   Crowds gathered along the lane to watch the bulleting and bet on each toss.

   Bulleting demands both raw strength and a good eye for the curve of the road.

   Note

   A Scottish name for the sport known more generally as road bowling. As the name of a game it is uncountable: people watch bulleting or take up bulleting, never "a bulleting." Outside a Scottish setting, road bowling is the clearer choice, since readers elsewhere will more naturally take bulleting as the verb form.

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