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Beetle
Definitions
- 1 Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
"beetle brows"
- 1 jutting or overhanging wordnet
- 1 Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
- 2 A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
- 3 Archaic spelling of betel. alt-of, archaic
"Scatter black sand, and offer camphor, sandal, flowers, beetle-leaves, and all sorts of fragrance."
- 4 A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011). Australia, New-Zealand, UK
- 5 insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings wordnet
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- 6 A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts. uncountable
"Guessing competitions were tackled with much enthusiasm, followed by a beetle drive, and judging by the laughter, this was popular with all."
- 7 A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
- 8 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 wordnet
- 9 Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”). alt-of
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:beetle."
- 1 To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
"He beetled off on his vacation."
- 2 To loom over; to extend or jut (above). ambitransitive
"The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof."
- 3 To beat with a heavy mallet.
- 4 beat with a beetle wordnet
- 5 To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
"to beetle cotton goods"
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- 6 fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle wordnet
- 7 be suspended over or hang over wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).
From Middle English bitle, bityl, bytylle, from Old English bitula, bitela, bītel (“beetle”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitilō, *bītil, from Proto-Germanic *bitilô, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), equivalent to bite + -le. Cognate with Old High German bicco (“beetle”), Danish bille (“beetle”), Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).
From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
From Middle English bitel-brouwed (“beetle-browed”). Possibly after beetle, from the fact that some beetles have bushy antennae.
From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
From Middle English betel, from Old English bȳtel, bīetel (“hammer”), from Proto-West Germanic *bautil (“hammer, mallet”), equivalent to beat + -le. Cognate with Low German Bötel (“mallet”).
Borrowed from Portuguese bétele, from Malayalam വെറ്റില (veṟṟila) or Tamil வெற்றிலை (veṟṟilai).
Calque of German Käfer.
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