beak
/biːk/ verb C2- To strike with the beak.
- To seize with the beak.
- To play truant.
He/she/it beaks · Past beaked · Past participle beaked · -ing form beaking
Verb forms
- Base form
- beak
- He/she/it
- beaks
- Past
- beaked
- Past participle
- beaked
- -ing form
- beaking
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak.
At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.
“You are old,” said the youth, “and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak— Pray, how did you manage to do it?”
A red-veined nose jutted out like a vulture's beak, and two fierce grey eyes glared at me from under tufted brows.
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