Beetle is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BEETLE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to jut out, overhang
• ram or crush with a beetle
• finish (cloth) with a beetle.
• A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
• A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine.
• To beat with a heavy mallet.
• To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
• Any insect of the order Coleoptera, having four wings, the outer pair being stiff cases for covering the others when they are folded up. See Coleoptera.
• To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut.
• be suspended over or hang over
• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle
• beat with a beetle
• scuttle or scurry
• make one's way hurriedly
• (of a rock or a person's eyebrows) project or overhang
NOUN:
• an insect of a large order distinguished by having forewings that are typically modified into hard wing cases (elytra), which cover and protect the hindwings and abdomen.
• a dice game in which a picture of a beetle is drawn or assembled.
• a very heavy mallet, typically with a wooden head, used for ramming, crushing, etc.
• a machine used for heightening the lustre of cloth by pressure from rollers.
• insect with a hard wing cover on its back
• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• jutting or overhanging
• (of a person's eyebrows) shaggy and projecting

Words related to BEETLE

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How to use BEETLE in a sentence

• The glen was very narrow, and the mountains seemed to beetle above it so as to shut out half the sunlight.
• The Engelmann spruce beetle has devastated many forests of the Rocky Mountains.
• Can you guess how the beetle and the honey were to help in saving Dhairya-Sila? 6.
• Presently she espied a Beetle, and begged it to aid her.
• The beetle was easily made, but the combs cost much trouble.
• There is one of the beetle family, however, that is extremely interesting.
• The female beetle deposits her eggs in the earth in the height of the summer, and in due time the worms emerge and commence their depredations.
• The cord by which it had been suspended passed through a small gold ring between the claws of the beetle.
• The Colorado beetle is hourly expected by Cunard steamer.
• A green plant, a blue butterfly, a red and yellow bird, a black or bronze-coloured beetle or lizard would improve the artistic aspect of the desert not a little.
• As soon as they have broken through the soil, an enemy awaits them in the small black insect commonly known as the cabbage or turnip fly, beetle, or flea.
• This tree, however, has passed away with hundreds of others, either by the hickory bark beetle or the axe.
• Now the Beetle told the reason for her action, and Jupiter had to acknowledge the justice of her cause.
• So I picked up the beetle and threw him into the next burrow, and, in order that he could give his performance there, sent the piece of earth after him.
• He was somewhat fatigued from having climbed the Wartburg whose castle, famed in the history of Luther, lay asleep there like a long and oddly shaped beetle.
• The clover was soon found, but it was a long time before we got the beetle.
• Seven days the brooch spun round, and seven days the beetle flew to the north, across three kingdoms and more, till he encountered the Moon, and besought his aid.
• He did not admire it less, and he made as much time over it as if that horrible insect had been a golden beetle.
• The left hand confines a lizard, while the right holds a beetle.
• Could you offer me a fly, or a beetle? I was chasing Judge Blue Bottle, or I should not have been trapped.
• And then, in the distance, I saw Cousin Emily crawling towards me like a black beetle with her half-shut eyes that see everything except beauty and innocence.
• One day one of us brought home a beetle, to the great horror of the servant.

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