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Synonyms for beaked

Grammar : Adj
Spell : beek
Phonetic Transcription : bik

Définition of beaked

Origin :
  • mid-13c., "bird's bill," from Old French bec "beak," figuratively "mouth," also "tip or point of a nose, a lance, a ship, a shoe," from Latin beccus (cf. Italian becco, Spanish pico), said by Suetonius ("De vita Caesarum" 18) to be of Gaulish origin, perhaps from Gaulish beccus, possibly related to Celtic stem bacc- "hook." Or there may be a link in Old English becca "pickax, sharp end." Jocular sense of "human nose" is from 1854 (but also was used mid-15c. in the same sense).
  • adj curved
Example sentences :
  • The smallest sort is the beaked whale, which is about 25 feet long.
  • Extract from : « Old Jack » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • The weapon in question is the Beaked or Hooked boomerang (F).
  • Extract from : « Spinifex and Sand » by David W Carnegie
  • In chemistry, a beaked cup or glass, more or less of the tumbler-pattern, used to collect precipitates and to heat liquids in.
  • Extract from : « Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I » by Arnold Cooley
  • Their weapons are gas and speed, and the rams on their beaked ships.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories, February, 1931 » by Various
  • His nose was beaked, his dark eye had the shining quickness of a robin's.
  • Extract from : « Crome Yellow » by Aldous Huxley
  • These Beaked Dinosaurs were, so far as we can tell, all vegetarians.
  • Extract from : « Dinosaurs » by William Diller Matthew
  • I saw the lion's beaked claws fastened in my leather wrist-band.
  • Extract from : « Tales of lonely trails » by Zane Grey
  • It is beaked, thrown into few or several ridges, with the slits or holes for breathing principally on the right side.
  • Extract from : « Armour in England » by J. Starkie Gardner
  • He stole a thievish look over his shoulder at the glass, and cautiously drew finger and thumb down that beaked nose.
  • Extract from : « The Return » by Walter de la Mare
  • Pallas is about the best of the several honey-flavored, beaked peaches that have fruited on the Station grounds.
  • Extract from : « The Peaches of New York » by U. P. Hedrick

Antonyms for beaked

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