beak vs crimp

beak

verb
  • Seize with the beak. 

  • To play truant. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

noun
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Libythea, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads. 

  • A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton). 

  • The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed. 

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

  • 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 an octopus, turtle, etc. 

  • A justice of the peace; a magistrate. 

  • The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. 

  • The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal. 

  • The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. 

  • A toe clip. 

  • 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. 

  • cocaine. 

  • Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant. 

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

  • A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off. 

crimp

verb
  • To pinch and hold; to seize. 

  • To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked. 

  • To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. 

  • to hold using a crimp 

  • To bend or mold leather into shape. 

  • To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. 

  • To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky. 

  • To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. 

noun
  • One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade. 

  • A small hold with little surface area. 

  • The natural curliness of wool fibres. 

  • Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. 

  • A grip on such a hold. 

  • A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. 

  • An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. 

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