beetle
beetle is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- transitive verb. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
- transitive verb. To beat with a heavy mallet.
- transitive verb. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- transitive verb. 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.
- intransitive verb. To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
- 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. jutting or overhanging
"beetle brows"
Synonyms
Common word forms
beetled, beetler, beetles, beetling
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