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Reference
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Brewer’s Dictionary
> Beetle (
To
).
Beeswing.
Beetle-crusher.
CONTENTS
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
E. Cobham Brewer
1810–1897
. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Beetle (
To
).
To overhang, to threaten, to jut over (Anglo-Saxon,
beot-ian,
to menace). Hence beetle or beetled brow.
1
“Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff,
That beetles o’er his base into the sea.”
Shakespeare: Hamlet,
i. 4.
Beeswing.
Beetle-crusher.
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