Meaning of BEETLE in English

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Meaning of BEETLE in English

• 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.

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