beetle

beetle has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
• n.. 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
• v.. beat with a beetle
• v.. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
• v.. be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
• a.. jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows"