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.
- synonyms: mallet
verb
- Be suspended over or hang over.
- usage: "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"
- synonyms: overhang
- 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"
- synonyms: beetling
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