deathwatch

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{i} tahtakurdu

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deathwatch beetles

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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

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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

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/ˈdeᴛʜˌwäʧ/ /ˈdɛθˌwɑːʧ/