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Definition of 'beak'English
Noun
( en-noun)
Anatomical uses .
# A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food.
# A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
# The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
# The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
# The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
# (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
Figurative uses .
# Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
- (Carew)
# (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
# (farriery) A toe clip.
# (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
# (nautical) A beam, shod or at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
Colloquial uses .
# (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
# (slang|British) A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority.
- He's up before the beak again tomorrow.
- I clapp'd my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free (I began to weep, and the judge set me free)
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Derived terms
* beakish
* wet one's beak
Verb
( en-verb)
strike with the beak.
seize with the beak.
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