6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS b[=i]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
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
or beetling machine; as to beetle cotton goods.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
{Beetle mite} (Zo["o]l.), one of many species of mites, of
the family {Oribatid[ae]}, parasitic on beetles.
{Black beetle}, the common large black cockroach ({Blatta
orientalis}).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beetle \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See {Beetlebrowed}.]
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
to jut.
To the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er
his base into the sea. --Shak.
Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
--Wordsworth.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
beetle
adj : jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: {beetling}]
n : insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to
form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
v 1: be suspended over or hang over [syn: {overhang}]
2: beat with a beetle
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.
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