n. | 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 | |||||||
v. t. | 1. | To beat with a heavy mallet. | ||||||
2. | To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; | |||||||
n. | 1. | 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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v. i. | 1. | To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. |
Noun | 1. | ![]() |
2. | beetle - 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 Synonyms: mallet | |
Verb | 1. | beetle - be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town" Synonyms: overhang |
2. | beetle - fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home" | |
3. | beetle - beat with a beetle | |
Adj. | 1. | beetle - jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" Synonyms: beetling |