Beak

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 12

bēk, n. the bill of a bird: anything pointed or projecting: the nose: in the ancient galley, a pointed iron fastened to the prow for piercing the enemy's ve el: ( slang ) a magistrate.— adj. Beaked (bēkt). [O. Fr. bec —Low L. beccus , of Celt. (Gaulish) origin.]