Beak

/biːk/ · noun

Meaning

A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
2. A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
3. The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
4. The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
5. The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
6. Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
7. Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
8. A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.

Example Sentences

At the townes end, Cuddenbeak, an ancient house of the Bishops, from a well aduanced Promontory, which intituled it Beak

Holonyms: bow, stem, forestem, prow, prore < ship < vessel

"You mind your own business, curse you!" growled Silas. "I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs. If you was a man I'd know better how to speak to you."

Shut your beak!

'Did you think that bloody question up by yourself, pal?' Seánie snapped, and the guy opened and closed his beak a few times — I suppose he must have been surprised that a priest would talk like that.

Typical Yankee detractor, nize your beak.

I just stay in bed till about 2pm. Then I sit around and smoke weed. Sometimes we do beak [cocaine] or garys [ecstasy or MDMA] but I don't do that on the street because your jaw swings like fuck and you would need a good kip half the time. I do it every weekend though and it's fucking great. I'm being good tonight. I'll have a Bud and a smoke.

Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment.

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• beaks
• beck
• beaking
• beaked

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