beetle

7 definitions found

beetle - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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[imac]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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  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 (Zool.), 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 - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  beetle
      adj 1: jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle,
             beetling]
      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, beetle]
      2: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the
         staircase"; "They beetled off home"
      3: beat with a beetle

beetle - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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.

beetle - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "beetle":
     arachnid, arthropod, beetle-browed, beetling, bug, caterpillar,
     centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, digester, diplopod, fly,
     hang out, hang over, harvestman, hexapod, impend, impend over,
     impendent, impending, incumbent, insect, jut, jutting, larva,
     lean over, lowering, macerator, maggot, masher, millepede,
     millipede, mite, nymph, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending,
     poke, potato masher, pouch, pout, project, project over,
     projecting, protrude, pulp machine, pulper, pulpifier, scorpion,
     smasher, spider, stand out, superincumbent, tarantula, thrust over,
     tick