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

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

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

Sounds like: betel

Derived forms: beetling, beetled, beetles

See also: protrusive

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

Part of: Coleoptera, order Coleoptera

Encyclopedia: Beetle