Beetle \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See Beetlebrowed.]
   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. --Shak.
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         Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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	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.
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   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.
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	Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beetled
   (-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Beetling.]
   1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
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   2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
      or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
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	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.
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   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).
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	beetle
    adj 1: jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle,
           beetling]
    n 1: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to
         form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
    2: 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]
    v 1: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles
         over the edge of the town" [syn: overhang, beetle]
    2: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the
       staircase"; "They beetled off home"
    3: beat with a beetle

	

	57 Moby Thesaurus words for "beetle":
   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

	

	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.