beak

IPA: bˈik

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

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