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beetle

noun

1 beetle

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

Dutch: tor, kever
Polish: chrzÄ…szcz

2 beetle

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.

synonym: mallet.

Polish: pobijak

verb

1 beetle

Be suspended over or hang over:
— This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town.

synonym: overhang.

Roget 206: be high etc. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over; orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, ... show more

Roget 214: be pendent etc. adj.; hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle, flap, trail, flow; beetle.    suspend, ... show more

Roget 250: be prominent etc. adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.], bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, ... show more

Dutch: overhangen

2 beetle

Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle.

3 beetle

Beat with a beetle.

adjective

1 beetle

Jutting or overhanging:
— Beetle brows.

synonym: beetling.


Moby thesaurus: arachnid, arthropod, beetle-browed, beetling, bug, caterpillar, centipede, chilopod, daddy longlegs, digester, diplopod, fly, hang out, hang over, harvestman, hexapod, impend, impend over, impendent, impending ... show more.

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