SkyfireDict

beetle   (TTS Sound)

The noun beetle has 2 senses

• beetle -- (insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings)


• mallet, 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)

The verb beetle has 3 senses

• overhang, beetle -- (be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town")


• beetle -- (fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home")


• beetle -- (beat with a beetle)

The adj beetle has 1 sense

• beetle, beetling -- (jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows")