de-beakv.
/diːˈbiːk/ transitive. To remove the beak from.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > rear poultry [verb (transitive)] > remove beak or feathers
dub1570
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stub1875
de-beak1937
1937 Ohio Agric. Exper. Station Bimonthly Bull. Jan.–Feb. 37 There is only one way to debeak [chickens] properly and effectively. Only the upper beak is removed. The beak is not cut off; it is torn off.
1955 Sci. News Let. 16 July 46/3 Debeaking turkeys reduces losses from cannibalism.
1959 Observer 8 Mar. 3/4 The ill-fated chicks..have to be..debeaked to prevent them tearing one another to pieces.
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deˈbeaking n.
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1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 133/1 Once feather pecking and cannibalism become established as a vice in intensively kept layers the only cure is debeaking.
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