deathwatch

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English - Turkish
idam mahkumu bekçisi
{i} tahtakurdu
ölüm bekleyiş
(isim) tahtakurdu
deathwatch beetles
tahtakurdu böcekleri
English - English
a vigil besides a dying person
one who guards a condemned person before execution
a deathwatch beetle
minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
The guard set over a criminal before his execution
bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, which makes a similar but fainter sound; called also deathtick
{i} vigil by the bed of a person who is dying
A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species)
By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death
deathwatch beetle
Any of various beetles of the family Anobiidae that bore into wood and make a tapping sound
deathwatch beetles
plural form of deathwatch beetle
deathwatch beetle
Any one of several beetles of the family Anobiidae, especially Xestobium rufovillosum, whose head makes a clicking sound as it burrows into wood or wooden structures. The sound was superstitiously regarded as a portent of death. Borer insect (beetle species Xestobium refuvillosum) that tends to be small (less than 0.5 in., or 1-9 mm) and cylindrical. When disturbed, it usually pulls in its legs and plays dead. It makes a ticking or clicking sound by bumping its head or jaws against the sides of the tunnels it creates as it bores into old furniture and wood, a sound that, according to superstition, forecasts a death
deathwatch beetle
bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
deathwatch

    Hyphenation

    death·watch

    Turkish pronunciation

    dethwäç

    Pronunciation

    /ˈdeᴛʜˌwäʧ/ /ˈdɛθˌwɑːʧ/
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