beak vs sole

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. 

sole

noun
  • The bottom or plantar surface of the foot. 

  • The end section of the chanter of a set of bagpipes. 

  • A piece of timber attached to the lower part of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel. 

  • The bottom of a furrow. 

  • The bottom of a shoe or boot. 

  • The bottom of the body of a plough; the slade. 

  • The horny substance under a horse's foot, which protects the more tender parts. 

  • The floor inside the cabin of a yacht or boat 

  • Solea solea, a flatfish of the family Soleidae. 

  • The bottom of an embrasure. 

  • The seat or bottom of a mine; applied to horizontal veins or lodes. 

  • A pond or pool; a dirty pond of standing water. 

verb
  • To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. 

  • to put a sole on (a shoe or boot) 

adj
  • Unique; unsurpassed. 

  • With independent power; unfettered. 

  • Unmarried (especially of a woman); widowed. 

  • Only. 

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