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noun

Beetle n.

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

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

Beetle 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.

Beetle mite (Zool.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatidae, parasitic on beetles.

Black beetle, the common large black cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

verb

Beetle v. t. (past & past part. beetled; pres. part. beetling)

To beat with a heavy mallet.

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

Beetle v. i. To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. "To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea." "Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime."

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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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