beetle
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 beetle
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings.
Nederlands: tor, kever
Pools: chrząszcz
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.
synoniem: mallet.
Pools: pobijak
werkwoord
1 beetle
Be suspended over or hang over:
— This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town.
synoniem: overhang.
Roget 206: be high etc. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over; orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, ... meer laten zien
Roget 214: be pendent etc. adj.; hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag; daggle†, flap, trail, flow; beetle. suspend, ... meer laten zien
Roget 250: be prominent etc. adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge [Fr.], bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, ... meer laten zien
Nederlands: overhangen
2 beetle
Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle.
3 beetle
Beat with a beetle.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
1 beetle
Jutting or overhanging:
— Beetle brows.
synoniem: beetling.
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