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n. Any of numerous insects of the order Coleoptera, having biting mouthparts and forewings modified to form horny coverings that protect the underlying pair of membranous hind wings when at rest.

n. An insect resembling a member of the order Coleoptera.

verb-intransitive. To make one's way or move like a beetle: "Chambermaids . . . beetled from bedroom to bedroom loaded with . . . champagne” ( Vanity Fair).

adj. Jutting; overhanging: beetle brows.

verb-intransitive. To jut; overhang: "The rocks often beetled over the road” ( Washington Irving).

n. A heavy mallet with a large wooden head.

n. A small wooden household mallet.

n. A machine with revolving wooden hammers that gives fabrics a lustrous sheen.

n. 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.

v. To move away quickly, to scurry away.

v. To loom over; to extend or jut.

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

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

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

v. To beat with a heavy mallet.

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

n. 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.

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

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

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

n. Same as beetling-machine.

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.

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

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

To be prominent; extend out; overhang; jut.

v. be suspended over or hang over

adj. jutting or overhanging

n. 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

v. beat with a beetle

v. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

n. 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."

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beetled    beetles    beetling   

hang    beat    locomote    travel    move    go   

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beetling machine    coleoptera   

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overhang    jut    coleopter    clock    scarab    dung beetle    dorbeetle    June beetle    bug   

Beatle    avital    cheetal    fetal    varietal   

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