beak-headn.

/ˈbiːkhɛd/

Etymology: < beak n.¹ + head n.¹

1. Naval Architecture

a. The beak (beak n.¹) or prow of an ancient war-galley.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun]

foreshipc1000

stam1336

bilynge?a1400

forestam?a1400

boat-head1485

head1485

prore1489

forecastle1490

steven1512

forepart1526

nose1538

prow1555

stem1555

forebow1569

beak-head1579

galion1604

bow1626

fore-beaka1656

forebudding1811

prora1847

snout1853

forward1892

sharp end1948

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > any part in front of stem > beak of galley

hornc1275

snouta1387

beak1550

spurn1553

beak-head1579

spur1604

rostrum1659

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 547 Commaunding his master to turne the beakehead of his gallie forward.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. v. v. §8. 694 Each of them hung out a burning Cresset vpon two poles, at the Beake-head.

1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) iii. 105 They..nailed it [sc. the bough] to the beak-head of the ship.

b. A small platform at the fore part of the upper deck.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > platform at bow

beak-head1850

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 95 Beak head, the short platform at the fore-part of the upper deck..placed at the height of the ports from the deck, for the convenience of the chase-guns.

c. The part of a ship in front of the forecastle, fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.

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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 10 The Beak-head is without the ship before the fore Castle..and of great vse, as well for the grace and countenance of the ship, as a place for men to ease themselues in.

2. Architecture. An ornament shaped like a bird's beak used in Norman mouldings.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings

bowtell1376

crownwork1594

protypum1601

chaplet1623

bandeleta1645

bedding-moulding1664

quadra1664

surbase1678

platband1696

bed-moulding1703

eyebrow1703

square1703

gorge1706

nerve1728

heel1734

quirk-moulding1776

star1781

bead1799

rope moulding1813

zigzag1814

chevron-moulding1815

nebule1823

billet1835

dancette1838

pellet moulding1838

vignette moulding1842

bird's beak moulding1845

beak-head ornament1848

beak-head1849

billet moulding1851

beading1858

bead-work1881

Venetian dentil1892

chevron-work-

1849 E. A. Freeman Hist. Archit. 248 The beak-head is commonly employed to grasp, as it were, one of the heavy roll-mouldings of the style.

Compounds

beak-head-beam n. (see quot.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams

transom1545

beam1627

wing-transom1711

stool1797

hold-beam1801

breast beam1805

skid beam1846

beak-head-beam1850

cat-beam1850

deck-beam1858

main-transom1867

spale1867

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 95 Cat-Beam, or Beak-Head Beam..is the broadest beam in a ship, generally made in two breadths, tabled and bolted together.

beak-head-bulkhead n. (see quot.).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > bottom or part under water > [noun] > hold > bulkhead or partition

bulkhead1496

cobridge-head1622

cubbridge head1622

beak-head-bulkhead1850

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 95 The foreside is placed far enough forward to receive the heads of the stanchions of the beak-head bulk-head.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Beak-head bulkhead, the old termination aft of the space called beak-head, which inclosed the fore part of the ship.

beak-head ornament n. (cf. sense 2).

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