To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape character, thereby forming an escape sequence.
The punctuation mark \.
Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash, that is, the punctuation mark /.
|passage= […] I was trying to find a web-site for which I had been given the following address: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm. […] I began to work backwards, removing first the last part of the address following the last backslash (/korjournal.htm).}}
To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.
To beat with a heavy mallet.
To loom over; to extend or jut.
To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine.
Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.