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

Verb
beat with a beetle

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

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

Adjective S.
jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"

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

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

v. t.
To beat with a heavy mallet.

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

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.

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

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To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea.

Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.

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

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.