beetle
noun
1. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
Definition categories: animal, insect
2. 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
Similar word(s): mallet
Definition categories: man–made, hammer
verb
1. be suspended over or hang over
- This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town
Similar word(s): overhang
Definition categories: stative, hang
2. fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
- He beetled up the staircase
- They beetled off home
Definition categories: motion, go, locomote, move, travel
3. beat with a beetle
Definition categories: contact, beat
Sentences with beetle as a verb:
- He beetled off on his vacation.
- The heavy chimney beetled over the thatched roof.
- to beetle cotton goods