Crossword-Solution: BEETLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Beetle | v. t. | A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. |
| Beetle | v. t. | A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. |
| Beetle | v. t. | To beat with a heavy mallet. |
| Beetle | v. t. | To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods. |
| Beetle | 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. |
| Beetle | v. i. | To extend over and beyond the base or support; to overhang; to jut. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BEETLE (5)
Gabriel shouted in his ear, “Where’s your thatching-beetle and rick-stick and spars?” “Under the staddles,” said Moon mechanically, with the unconscious promptness of a medium.
Certain it is that, some fifteen or twenty years after the settlement of the town, the wooden jail was already marked with weather-stains and other indications of age, which gave a yet darker aspect to its beetle-browed and gloomy front.
The fireflies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon brightness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch’s token.
There was a sharp yelp, a flirt of the poodle’s head, and the beetle fell a couple of yards away, and lit on its back once more.
This includes the Beetle, Bus (Types II and II/IV), Ghia, Squareback, Kubelwagen (Thing), bajas, buggies, Schwimmwagen, rails and any VW (air-cooled) powered vehicle including aircraft.
Quotes with BEETLE (3)
He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain robes, perhaps with a doctor's bag but more often an artificer's toolstrip and apron, like the man who came in, at the close of the day, to put out the lamps and still the workings of the machines. Among his own people, death was a swift insect, gleaming black, its wings a blur - too fast to be outrun and too agile to be avoided, the unplumbed …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 140 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).