neb

Etymology

From Middle English neb, from Old English nebb (“beak, nose, face”), from Proto-Germanic *nabją (“beak, nose”). Cognate with Danish næb, Dutch neb, German Schnabel, Old Norse nef, Swedish näbb, Swedish regional näv.

noun

  1. (now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
  2. (obsolete) A person's mouth.
  3. (now dialectal) A person's nose.
  4. (now dialectal) The peak of a flat cap.
  5. (now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
  6. (now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
    In Acorns the nebb dilating splitteth the two sides, which sometimes lye whole, when the Oak is sproated two handfuls. 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 183
  7. (now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.

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