beaked

adj

beaked

adj

/biːkt/

1

In compounds, Often Having a beak.

  • Fain would the Red Foliot turn the Demons from their resolve, but without avail; they courteously thanking him for his hospitality which they said they would enjoy that night in their booths, being minded on the morrow to take to their beaked ship and fare over the unvintaged sea to Demonland.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 30:
Derived terms
beaked off, beaked salmon, beaked whale, hawk-beaked, long-beaked bald rush, sharp-beaked ground finch, Sir David's long-beaked echidna, unbeaked, white-beaked dolphin

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