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beetle

• (s) jutting or overhanging
  • beetle brows
  beetling,

Nouns

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

Verbs

• (v) be suspended over or hang over
  • This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town
  overhang,
• (v) fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
  • He beetled up the staircase
  • They beetled off home
• (v) beat with a beetle

Synonyms

overhang beetling mallet

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