Beetle

1. 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.
2. v. t. A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
3. v. t. To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
4. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.