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Webster 1913 Edition
Beetle
Bee′tle
(bē′t’l)
, Noun.
1.
A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
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.
Bee′tle
(bē′t’l)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Beetled
(-t’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Beetling
.] 1.
To beat with a heavy mallet.
2.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine;
as, to
. beetle
cotton goodsBee′tle
,Noun.
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
– Oribatidæ
, parasitic on beetles. Black beetle
, the common large black cockroach (
Blatta orientalis
).Bee′tle
,Verb.
I.
[See
Beetlebrowed
.] To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
To the dreadful summit of the cliff
That
That
beetles
o’er his base into the sea. Shakespeare
Each
beetling
rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.