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Beetle : adj : jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetling]
(noun)
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]
(verb)
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
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
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).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Beetle : \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See Beetlebrowed.]
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
to jut.
To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er
his base into the sea. --Shak.
Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
--Wordsworth.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Beetle : (Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in
Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly
the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four
feet, "which has legs above its feet, to leap withal." The
description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been
an article of food from the earliest times in the East to the
present day. The word is rendered "cricket" in the Revised
Version.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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