deathwatch

English - Turkish

Definition of deathwatch in English Turkish dictionary

idam mahkumu bekçisi

{i} tahtakurdu

ölüm bekleyiş

(isim) tahtakurdu

Related Terms

deathwatch beetles

tahtakurdu böcekleri

English - English

Definition of deathwatch in English English dictionary

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

Related Terms

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

Hyphenation

death·watch

Turkish pronunciation

dethwäç

Pronunciation

/ˈdeᴛʜˌwäʧ/ /ˈdɛθˌwɑːʧ/