1. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
   "The dung beetle rolled a ball of manure across the field"
    
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
   "The carpenter used a wooden beetle to gently tap the joints together";
   - mallet

1. Be suspended over or hang over
   "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town";
   - overhang
    
2. [informal] To move about or proceed hurriedly
   "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home";
   - scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle, scutter [Brit]
    
3. Beat with a beetle
   "They beetled the laundry to remove excess water"

1. Jutting or overhanging
   "beetle brows";
   - beetling

Sounds like: betel

Derived forms: beetled, beetling, beetles

See also: protrusive

Type of: beat, go, hammer, hang, insect, locomote, move, run, travel

Part of: Coleoptera, order Coleoptera

Encyclopedia: Beetle, Kentucky