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▸ noun: A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
▸ noun: A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
▸ noun: The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
▸ noun: The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
▸ noun: The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
▸ noun: (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
▸ noun: (by extension)
▸ noun: Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
▸ noun: (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
▸ noun: (farriery) A toe clip.
▸ noun: (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
▸ noun: (nautical) A beam, shod or armed 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.
▸ noun: (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
▸ noun: (slang)
▸ noun: A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
▸ noun: (especially MTE) A person's mouth.
▸ noun: (uncountable, Southern England) Cocaine.
▸ verb: (transitive) To strike with the beak.
▸ verb: (transitive) To seize with the beak.
▸ verb: (intransitive, Northern Ireland) To play truant.
▸ noun: (slang, British) A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
▸ noun: (slang, British public schools) A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
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