beak

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to hit lightly with a picking motion

   The children beaked at their food.

2. 2
   noun

   horny, projecting mouth of animals other than birds, e.g., turtles or squid

   The tortoise's beak compensates for its lack of teeth.

3. 3
   noun

   Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.

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

4. 4
   noun

   That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

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

5. 5
   noun

   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.

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

6. 6
   noun

   A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.

   "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."

7. 7
   noun

   A person's mouth.

   Shut your beak!

8. 8
   noun

   Cocaine.

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *baḱ- (“pointed stick, peg”). Cognate with Breton beg (“beak”). Compare Saterland Frisian Bäk (“mouth; muzzle; beak”); Dutch bek (“beak; bill; neb”).