What is the meaning of beetle?

noun

  • Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings.
  • 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

  • Be suspended over or hang over.
    • usage: "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
  • Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle.
    • usage: "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home"
  • Beat with a beetle.

adjective

  • Jutting or overhanging.
    • usage: "beetle brows"
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