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Turtle feature
Answer for the clue "Turtle feature ", 4 letters:
beak
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Word definitions for beak in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Anatomical uses''. 2 # A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming and for eating food. 3 # A similar structure forming the jaws of an octopus, turtle, ''etc.'' 4 # The long projecting sucking mouth of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 (source also of Italian becco , Spanish pico ), said by Suetonius ( "De vita Caesarum" 18) to be of Gaulish ...
Usage examples of beak.
Schools of tiny mullet and squid skipped this way and that in frenzied fear, snapped at by the fierce albacore below and the eager beaks of the birds.
But off in his beaked seagoing ships he lay, raging away at Atrides Agamemnon, king of armies, while his men sported along the surf, marking time, hurling the discus, throwing spears and testing bows.
As for Boke, he must have been unaffected by whatever killed those men.
But no, when Sultman learned what Boke planned, he decided to get in ahead of Boke and put the plan through himself.
Sidney Lorrey started violently, for the utterly pleasant voice of the fantastic Boke was in the room.
Lorrey, his interest in the mysterious Boke greater than his own agony, listened intently for some sound of a man leaving the other room, but there was no such noise.
The door he was making for was the one which led into the room from which Boke, the mysterious man with the voice of joy, had spoken.
Doc Savage and the others more about the mysterious Boke than all they had learned prior to that moment, for the ejaculation was in a different tone, and the alteration showed that Boke had been speaking in a disguised voice.
The name of Boke did not seem unknown to the individuals he called, and when the pleasant Voice requested their presence, at a conference aimed at their own good, most of them agreed.
Every one present had pretended to read the missive, but Boke knew that some of the big shots could not read a word, and he did not want to embarrass anybody.
Boke--and was disgusted when he discovered that the individual who must be Boke was effectively disguised by a flying suit and a muffler tied across his features.
But their reluctance was not too strong, and it was evident in a subtle way that Boke would win their aid.
So, as Boke suddenly discovered, thorough defense mechanism had been installed.
I delivered my boke to the Lord Threasorer for the correction of the Calender.
Francis Pucci cam and browght Chrisan Franken with him, who, he sayd, had now recanted his wycked boke against Christ, wherof I was glad.