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beak
beak is a 4-letter English word with 17 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 17 senses
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- 1noun
The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds.
- 2noun
A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles.
- 3noun
The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- 4noun
The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
- 5noun
The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
- 6noun
Anything projecting or ending in a point, like a beak, as a promontory of land.
- 7noun
A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
- 8noun
That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
- 9noun
A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
- 10noun
Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
- 11noun
A toe clip. See Clip. (Far.).
- 12noun
A magistrate or policeman.
- 13noun
horny projecting mouth of a bird
- 14noun
beaklike mouth of animals other than birds (e.g., turtles)
- 15noun
informal terms for the nose
- 16noun
a beaklike, tapering tip on certain plant structures
- 17verb
hit lightly with a picking motion
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