Word Meanings - BEETLESTOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The handle of a beetle.

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• BEETLESTOCK
  The handle of a beetle.
• BEETLE
  1. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc. 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.
• HANDLESS
  Without a hand. Shak.
• BEETLEHEAD
  The black-bellied plover, or bullhead . See Plover. (more info) 1. A stupid fellow; a blockhead. Sir W. Scott.
• BEETLE-BROWED
  Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. Note: The earlier meaning was, "Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows."
• BEETLE BROW
  An overhanging brow.
• BEETLE-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. Shak.
• HANDLE
  1. To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand. Handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh. Luke xxiv. 39. About his altar, handling holy things. Milton. 2. To manage in using, as a spade or a musket; to wield; often, to
• HANDLEABLE
  Capable of being handled.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• BARK BEETLE
  A small beetle of many species , which in the larval state bores under or in the bark of trees, often doing great damage.
• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• WATER BEETLE
  Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the family Dytiscidæ, and to various genera of the family Hydrophilidæ. These beetles swim with great agility, the fringed hind legs acting together like
• TAPESTRY BEETLE
  A small black dermestoid beetle whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.
• PANHANDLE STATE
  West Virginia; -- a nickname.
• AMBROSIA BEETLE
  A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia.
• CHANDLERY
  Commodities sold by a chandler.
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• PANHANDLE
  The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.
• OVERHANDLE
  To handle, or use, too much; to mention too often. Shak.
• BILLBEETLE; BILLBUG
  A weevil or curculio of various species, as the corn weevil. See Curculio.
• FIRE BEETLE
  A very brilliantly luminous beetle , one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; -- called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See Firefly.
• FLEA-BEETLE
  A small beetle of the family Halticidæ, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas. The turnip flea- beetle and that of the grapevine (Graptodera chalybea) are common injurious species.