beak vs gore

beak

noun
  • A toe clip. 

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • To play truant. 

  • Seize with the beak. 

  • Strike with the beak. 

gore

noun
  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe. 

  • Dirt; mud; filth. 

  • A projecting point. 

  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ 

  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet. 

  • One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point. 

  • Murder, bloodshed, violence. 

  • A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error. 

  • The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe 

  • Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. 

verb
  • To cut in a triangular form. 

  • To provide with a gore. 

  • To pierce with the horn. 

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