Beakhead

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  • n. A protruding part of the foremost section of a sailing ship.
  • n. An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
  • n.
  • n. A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.
  • n. Same as Beak, 3.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An ornament resembling the head and beak of a bird, or, often, a grotesque human head terminating in a beak, used as an enrichment of moldings in Romanesque architecture.
  • n. That part of a ship before the forecastle which is fastened to the stem and supported by the main knee.
  • Word Usage
    "Her beakhead was a riot of gilded wood supporting a figurehead that showed an ecstatic-faced lady graced with a halo, carrying a sword and dressed in silver-painted armor, though her breastplate was curiously truncated to reveal a pinkly naked bosom."
    Variant
    beak