Beak vs Beag - What's the difference?
beak | beag |
Anatomical uses .
# A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food.
# A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, etc.
# The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
# The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
# The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
# (botany) Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
Figurative uses .
# Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
# (architecture) A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
# (farriery) A toe clip.
# (nautical) That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
# (nautical) A beam, shod or 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.
Colloquial uses .
# (slang) The human nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
# (slang, British) A justice of the peace, magistrate, headmaster or other person of authority.
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(historical) A ring.
* 1878 , Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain), The Numismatic chronicle and journal of the Numismatic Society :
* 1970 , William A. Chaney, The cult of kingship in Anglo-Saxon England :
As nouns the difference between beak and beag
is that beak is anatomical uses while beag is (historical) a ring.As a verb beak
is strike with the beak.beak
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Carew)
- He's up before the beak again tomorrow.
- I clapp'd my peepers full of tears, and so the old beak set me free (I began to weep, and the judge set me free)
Synonyms
* (sense, rigid structure projecting from a bird's face) bill * (human nose) honker, schnozzleDerived terms
* beakish * wet one's beakAnagrams
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*beag
English
Noun
(en noun)- It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag " (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
- [...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita'' as ''coronatus lauro'' probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal ''diadema .