Found 3 items, similar to beetle.
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Definition: beetle
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: beetle
beetle
adj : jutting or overhanging;
“beetle brows” [syn:
beetling]
beetle
n 1: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to
form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
2: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually
wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or
for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing [syn:
mallet]
beetle
v 1: be suspended over or hang over;
“This huge rock beetles over
the edge of the town” [syn:
overhang]
2: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle;
“He beetled up
the staircase”;
“They beetled off home”
3: beat with a beetle
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Beetle
Beetle
\Bee"tle\, n. [OE. bityl, bittle, AS. b[imac]tel, fr.
b[imac]tan to bite. See
Bite, v. t.]
Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the
outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when
they are folded up. See
Coleoptera.
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Beetle mite (Zo["o]l.), one of many species of mites, of
the family
Oribatid[ae], parasitic on beetles.
Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (
Blatta orientalis
).
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Beetle
\Bee"tle\, v. i. [See
Beetlebrowed.]
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
to jut.
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To the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea. --Shak.
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Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
--Wordsworth.
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Beetle
\Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS. b[=i]tl, b?tl,
mallet, hammer, fr. be['a]tan to beat. See
Beat, v. t.]
1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
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2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering
process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; --
called also
beetling machine. --Knight.
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Beetle
\Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Beetled
(-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.
Beetling.]
1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
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2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
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