Definitions for beaks

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Spelling: [beek]

IPA: /bik/

Beaks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in beaks (abeks).

Definitions for beaks

noun

1. the bill of a bird; neb.
2. any similar horny mouthpart in other animals, as the turtle or duckbill.
3. anything beaklike or ending in a point, as the spout of a pitcher.
4. Slang. a person's nose.
5. Entomology. proboscis (def 3).
6. Botany. a narrowed or prolonged tip.
7. Nautical. (formerly) a metal or metal-sheathed projection from the bow of a warship, used to ram enemy vessels; ram; rostrum.
8. Typography. a serif on the arm of a character, as of a K.
9. Also called bird's beak. Architecture. a pendant molding forming a drip, as on the soffit of a cornice.
10. Chiefly British Slang. a judge; magistrate. a schoolmaster.

Origin of beaks

1175-1225; Middle English bec Old French Latin beccus Gaulish

Examples for beaks

I can see her figure-head distinctly—a bird with a beak as big as its head.'

I also like a bird's beak knife, for fiddly decorative things like making radish flowers and skinning apples in one long peel.

The feet are not feathered, and the legs and beak are shorter.

The key part of the costume, beyond the head-to-toe fabric, was the beak.

And the beak giv' 'em six weeks—coss the ship warn't overloaded.

I am lean and bony and I've got a beak where I should have a nose.

There is often a very audible snap of the beak as they arrest their prey.

The Duck Dynasty congressman got caught sticking his beak in the wrong place.

He brought them alive in his beak, and gave them to his companion.

All I do know was, that I was brought before a beak and charged with stealing.