Seize with the beak.
To play truant.
Strike with the beak.
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.
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.
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.