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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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