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Beetle \Bee"tle\, v. i. [See {Beetlebrowed}.]
To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang;
to jut.
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To the dreadful summit of the cliff
That beetles o'er his base into the sea. --Shak.
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Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime.
--Wordsworth.
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Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), n. [OE. betel, AS. b[imac]tl,
b?tl, mallet, hammer, fr. be['a]tan to beat. See {Beat}, v.
t.]
1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
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2. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering
process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; --
called also {beetling machine}. --Knight.
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Beetle \Bee"tle\ (b[=e]"t'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beetled}
(-t'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Beetling}.]
1. To beat with a heavy mallet.
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2. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle
or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
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Beetle \Bee"tle\, n. [OE. bityl, bittle, AS. b[imac]tel, fr.
b[imac]tan to bite. See {Bite}, v. t.]
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}.
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{Beetle mite} (Zool.), one of many species of mites, of the
family {Oribatid[ae]}, parasitic on beetles.

{Black beetle}, the common large black cockroach ({Blatta
orientalis}).
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