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Beetle

noun

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

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. Synonym: mallet.

verb

(past & past part. beetled; pres. part. beetling)

Be suspended over or hang over. Synonym: overhang.

Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle. "They beetled off home"

Beat with a beetle.

adjective

Jutting or overhanging. Synonym: beetling.

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"Beetle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Old Mother Nature. "Also he eats grubs and insects. He dearly loves a fat beetle. He likes meat when ...

— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... the old familiar spot. Surely it was only one of the many dreams in which I had played again beneath those trees! But when I re-opened my eyes there was the same hole, and, oddly enough, the same beetle or one just like it. I had not noticed till that moment how much larger the hole was than it used to be ...

— The Brownies and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... side Bacon, Roger Baffeld ( treated ignominiously) Bainardes Castle Bale of dice Bandogs Banks' horse Bantam Barleybreak Basolas manos Basses Bastard Bavyn Bayting Beare a braine Beetle Bermudas Berwick, pacification of Besognio Best hand, buy at the Bezoar Bilbo mettle Biron, Marechal de Bisseling Blacke and blewe Blacke gard Black Jacks Bob'd Bombards Bonos nocthus Booke ("Williams craves his booke") Borachos Bossed Bottom, Brass, coinage of ...

— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen

... though they were all of the same length. Some had been cut from the tops of the trees, or from the branches, and were, consequently, small in diameter; others were from the trunks, which would, of course, make large logs. These logs had, however, been split into quarters by a beetle and wedges, when the wood had been prepared, so that there were very few sticks or logs so large, but that Jonas could pretty easily get them ...

— Jonas on a Farm in Winter • Jacob Abbott

... speak to me so kindly, for I do not deserve such goodness. What is my life after all? I would let it go, as a child leaves go of a beetle it has caught, to spare you ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

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