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Synonyms for beak

Grammar : Noun
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Phonetic Transcription : bik

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Définition of beak

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "bird's bill," from Old French bec "beak," figuratively "mouth," also "tip or point of a nose, a lance, a ship, a shoe," from Latin beccus (cf. Italian becco, Spanish pico), said by Suetonius ("De vita Caesarum" 18) to be of Gaulish origin, perhaps from Gaulish beccus, possibly related to Celtic stem bacc- "hook." Or there may be a link in Old English becca "pickax, sharp end." Jocular sense of "human nose" is from 1854 (but also was used mid-15c. in the same sense).
  • noun nose of animal
Example sentences :
  • I am lean and bony and I've got a beak where I should have a nose.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • All I do know was, that I was brought before a beak and charged with stealing.
  • Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang
  • He brought them alive in his beak, and gave them to his companion.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. » by Various
  • And the beak giv' 'em six weeks—coss the ship warn't overloaded.
  • Extract from : « The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" » by Joseph Conrad
  • I can see her figure-head distinctly—a bird with a beak as big as its head.'
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • There is often a very audible snap of the beak as they arrest their prey.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 » by Various
  • The feet are not feathered, and the legs and beak are shorter.
  • Extract from : « The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. » by Charles Darwin
  • My master's a law-cove, and he'll 'ave y' up before the beak.
  • Extract from : « The Opal Serpent » by Fergus Hume
  • All the rest of the body is black; while the beak is of the colour of sulphur.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • And as he sought for it he saw a raven with a leaf in her beak.
  • Extract from : « The Children of Odin » by Padraic Colum

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