noun. Any insect belonging to the order Coleoptera (which see).

To be prominent; extend out; overhang; jut.

To use a beetle on; beat with a heavy wooden mallet, as linen or cotton cloth, as a substitute for mangling.

To finish cloth by means of a beetling-machine.

Shaggy; prominent: used in beetle brow (also written beetle-brow).

noun. A heavy wooden mallet, used to drive wedges, consolidate earth, etc.

noun. A wooden pestle-shaped utensil used for mashing potatoes, for beating linen, etc.

noun. Same as beetling-machine.

noun. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

noun. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.

noun. 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.

noun. one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidæ, parasitic on beetles.

noun. the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

transitive verb. To beat with a heavy mallet.

transitive verb. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.

intransitive verb. To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.

noun. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.

verb. To move away quickly, to scurry away.

verb. To loom over; to extend or jut.

noun. A type of mallet with a large wooden head.

verb. be suspended over or hang over

adjective. jutting or overhanging

noun. 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

verb. beat with a beetle

verb. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

noun. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

"Strangely enough, in the novel Have Space-Suit, Will Travel, Robert Heinlein used the term beetle tracking to describe the sort of typically un-serious courses that the protagonist was expected to take in high school; Heinlein was just as disparaging of the same sort of courses encountered in the typical American college campus."

aberrant long-horned beetle  between the beetle and the block  bloody-nose beetle  brazilian beetle  bug  

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beetled  beetling  

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Beatle  avital  cheetal  fetal  varietal  

ant  bat  bug  butterfly  caterpillar  

June beetle  arachnid  arthropod  beetle-browed  beetling  

beetling machine  coleoptera  

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