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be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"

beat with a beetle

fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"

be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"

beat with a beetle

fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"

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

To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

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.

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

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

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

To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.

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.

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

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

Any insect having four wings, the outer pair being hardened and serving as a horny covering to the inner pair; a heavy wooden mallet.

To be prominent; jut out; overhang, as a cliff.

Overhanging; prominent; as, a beetle brow.

An insect with hard cases for its wings.

A heavy wooden mallet used to beat with.

To jut or hang out like the head of a beetle or mallet.

A wooden mallet; an insect with hard wing-cases.

To jut or hang over.

To beat or stamp with or as with a beetle, mallet, etc.

Overhanging; prominent; as, a beetle brow. beetling.

Beetle browed.

Any coleopterous insect.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A heavy mallet or wooden hammer;—a coleopterous insect having four wings, the outer being stiff cases for covering the others when folded.

An insect distinguished by having hard cafes or sheaths, under which he folds his wings; a heavy mallet.