Usually means: Wood-boring beetle, makes tapping sound.
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  1. deathwatch beetle: Merriam-Webster
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  3. deathwatch beetle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deathwatch beetle: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. deathwatch beetle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deathwatch beetle: Wiktionary
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  9. Deathwatch beetle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (deathwatch beetle)

noun:  Any of various beetles of the family Anobiidae, now usually included in family Ptinidae, especially Xestobium rufovillosum, that bore into wood and make a tapping sound.

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