Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- 2transitive verb
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
- 3transitive verb
To beat with a heavy mallet.
- 4transitive verb
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6intransitive verb
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
- 7noun
insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
- 8noun
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
Synonyms
- 9verb
beat with a beetle
- 10verb
fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
"He beetled up the staircase"
"They beetled off home"
- 11verb
be suspended over or hang over
"This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
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- 12adjective
jutting or overhanging
"beetle brows"
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