A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
They take up men, Dick, for going about in women's clothes, and vice versaw, I suppose. You'll bail me, old fellaa, if I have to make my bow to the beak, won't you?
From Middle English bec, borrowed from Anglo-Norman bec, Old French bec, from Latin beccus, from Gaulish *bekkos, from Proto-Celtic *bekkos (“beak, snout”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bak-, *b...
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Knew the Jampot well. I spent many an afternoon while I was beaking school in that fine establishment.