beaked
- v hit lightly with a picking motion
- a having or resembling a beak
- The Egyptians learned the art, said the Roman Naturalist Pliny, from the long-beaked ibis, who "washes the inside of his body by introducing water with his beak into the channel .
- None of these titles quite fits the fantastic career and character of Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, a stooped, eagle-beaked Spaniard who in his ninth decade is perhaps the world .
- He has been knighted and fted, of course (and honored by having a wondrously weird New Guinea spiky anteater named Attenborough's long-beaked echidna).