beak
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beak1
▶noun
- 1 a bird's horny projecting jaws; a bill.
■ a projecting jaw in some other animals.
- 2 a projection at the prow of an ancient warship, used to pierce the hulls of enemy ships.
– derivatives
beaked adjective.
beaked adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. bec, from L. beccus, of Celtic origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
beak2
▶noun Brit. informal a magistrate or schoolmaster.
– origin C18: prob. from criminals' sl.
'beak' also found in these Oxford entries:
alembic
- aquiline
- armed
- beaked whale
- becard
- bill
- bird
- bottlenose dolphin
- cere
- coracoid
- cranesbill
- debeak
- dolphin
- egg tooth
- gape
- garfish
- gob
- gouge
- grosbeak
- halfbeak
- hawk-nosed
- kingfisher
- lore
- mandible
- neb
- nib
- octopus
- owl
- parrotfish
- peck
- pecker
- pico-
- preen
- pteranodon
- Punchinello
- rostrum
- scratch
- snib
- snipe eel
- turbit
