'Beetle' definitions:
Definition of 'beetle'
From: WordNet
adjective
Jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle, beetling]
noun
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
noun
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 [syn: mallet, beetle]
verb
Be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town" [syn: overhang, beetle]
verb
Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
verb
Beat with a beetle
Definition of 'Beetle'
From: GCIDE
- Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS. b[imac]tl, b?tl, mallet, hammer, fr. be['a]tan to beat. See Beat, v. t.]
- 1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beetle'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Beetle'
From: GCIDE
- Beetle \Bee"tle\, n. [OE. bityl, bittle, AS. b[imac]tel, fr. b[imac]tan to bite. See Bite, v. t.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- Beetle mite (Zool.), one of many species of mites, of the family Oribatid[ae], parasitic on beetles.
- Black beetle, the common large black cockroach ({Blatta orientalis}). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beetle'
From: GCIDE
- Beetle \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See Beetlebrowed.] To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. [1913 Webster]
- To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beetle'
From: Easton
- Beetle (Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the word cannot mean properly the beetle. It denotes some winged creeper with at least four feet, "which has legs above its feet, to leap withal." The description plainly points to the locust (q.v.). This has been an article of food from the earliest times in the East to the present day. The word is rendered "cricket" in the Revised Version.
Synonyms of 'beetle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arachnid,
- arthropod,
- beetle-browed,
- beetling,
- bug,
- caterpillar,
- centipede,
- chilopod,
- daddy longlegs,
- digester,
- diplopod,
- fly,
- hang out,
- hang over,
- harvestman,
- hexapod,
- impend,
- impend over,
- impendent,
- impending,
- incumbent,
- insect,
- jut,
- jutting,
- larva,
- lean over,
- lowering,
- macerator,
- maggot,
- masher,
- millepede,
- millipede,
- mite,
- nymph,
- overhang,
- overhanging,
- overhung,
- pending,
- poke,
- potato masher,
- pouch,
- pout,
- project,
- project over,
- projecting,
- protrude,
- pulp machine,
- pulper,
- pulpifier,
- scorpion,
- smasher,
- spider,
- stand out,
- superincumbent,
- tarantula,
- thrust over,
- tick
Words containing 'Beetle'
- Beetled,
- Beetling,
- beetle off,
- Bacon beetle,
- Bark beetle,
- Bee beetle,
- Beetle brow,
- Beetle mite,
- Black beetle,
- Blind beetle,
- Blister beetle,
- Bombardier beetle,
- Burying beetle,
- Cabbage beetle,
- Capricorn beetle,
- Carpet beetle,
- Carrion beetle,
- Click beetle,
- Colorado beetle,
- Cucumber beetle,
- Diamond beetle,
- Diving beetle,
- Elephant beetle,
- Elm beetle,
- Fiddle beetle,
- Fire beetle,
- Flower beetle,
- Gold beetle,
- Goldsmith beetle,
- Goliath beetle,
- Ground beetle,
- Harlequin beetle,
- Helmet beetle,
- Hercules beetle,
- Hercules' beetle,
- June beetle,
- Ladder beetle,
- Leaf beetle,
- Lily beetle,
- Locust beetle,
- May beetle,
- Meal beetle,
- Melon beetle,
- Mimic beetle,
- Museum beetle,
- Musk beetle,
- Pill beetle,
- Potato beetle,
- Rhinoceros beetle,
- Rose beetle,
- Rove beetle,
- Sacred beetle,
- Scale beetle,
- Scavenger beetle,
- Sexton beetle,
- Snap beetle,
- Snapping beetle,
- Snout beetle,
- Soldier beetle,
- Spring beetle,
- Squash beetle,
- Stag beetle,
- Sun beetle,
- Tapestry beetle,
- Thunderbolt beetle,
- Tiger beetle,
- Timber beetle,
- Tortoise beetle,
- Tree beetle,
- Vine beetle,
- Watchman beetle,
- Water beetle,
- Wheat beetle,
- asiatic beetle,
- bean beetle,
- beetle browed,
- beetling machine,
- carabid beetle,
- clerid beetle,
- darkling beetle,
- deathwatch beetle,
- dung beetle,
- elaterid beetle,
- flea beetle,
- flour beetle,
- golden beetle,
- ground beetles,
- horse beetle,
- japanese beetle,
- lady beetle,
- ladybird beetle,
- lamellicorn beetle,
- longicorn beetle,
- melolonthid beetle,
- oil beetle,
- oriental beetle,
- sawyer beetle,
- scarabaeid beetle,
- searcher beetle,
- seed beetle,
- snout beetles,
- whirligig beetle,
- whirlwig beetle,
- Beetle-browed,
- Beetle-headed,
- Colorado potato beetle,
- Flea-beetle,
- asian longhorned beetle,
- black carpet beetle,
- buffalo carpet beetle,
- darkling groung beetle,
- green june beetle,
- mexican bean beetle,
- spruce bark beetle,
- dutch-elm beetle,
- long-horned beetle