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Meanings of beetle in English

Portuguese
malho
Spanish
mazo

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.

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malho

Jutting or overhanging.

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Examples for "beetling"
Examples for "beetling"
1
The beetling walls of the fortress were as tho they were not.
The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and Ge...
2
The whole mountain range seemed an immense red barrier of beetling rock.
Tales of lonely trails
3
The shadow of a pair of beetling brows rolled darkly over me.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
4
All that was missing was a Honda 50 beetling up Lexington Avenue.
The Irish Times
5
Small eyes, red and fiery, were set deep under a beetling forehead.
The Path of the King

Be suspended over or hang over.

Big black thing.

Usage of beetle in English
1
Indeed, one in four animal species on this planet is a beetle.
Wired
2
Fish and Wildlife Service asking that the beetle removal work be stopped.
The Guardian
3
In the great Dyticus water-beetle this is done in a curious way.
Chatterbox, 1905.
4
Bartl said that optical computer chips won't actually run on beetle scales.
Wired
5
The long-noses brought you here from the place of your beetle friends.
Jem
6
This week we are taking a look at the mānuka chafer beetle.
Radio NZ
7
Photograph: Francis Devine We came across a small beetle on our lavender.
The Irish Times
8
There was not a rat or a black beetle in the place.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate V1
9
He held the beetle in his hand a long while, loving it.
The Worshipper of the Image
10
His dæmon, a large and iridescent green-backedbeetle, clicked her wing cases.
The amber spyglass
11
So you have to find the right beetle for your own climate.
Radio NZ
12
The Engelmann spruce beetle has devastated many forests of the Rocky Mountains.
The School Book of Forestry
13
The scarab Madge knew to be a beetle sacred to the Egyptians.
Madge Morton's Secret
14
Moreover, the beetle eats its prey on the spot as it kills.
Social Life in the Insect World
15
Phase two involves bio-control via an imported fungus to eradicate the beetle.
Radio NZ
16
The new monotypic genus is compared with fossil and extant flea-beetle genera.
Pubmed
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Translations for beetle
Portuguese
malho
Spanish
mazo
Beetle through the time
Beetle across language varieties
New Zealand
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
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