Beakhead: Definition and part of speech

Beakhead

  1. n. Same as Beak, 3.
  2. n. An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
  3. n. A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck of a vessel, which contains the water closets of the crew.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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