A justice of-peace, or magistrate. Also a judge or chairman who presides in court. 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.
·noun A magistrate or policeman. II. Beak ·noun A toe clip. ·see <<Clip>>, ·noun. (Far.). III. Bea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, or beak-head A piece of brass like a beak, fixed at the head of the ancient galleys, with which ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A molding whose section is thought to resemble a beak. ...
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For this important timber see cat-beam. ...
The old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship. ...