debeak
verb/diːˈbiːk/UK
Etymology
Definitions
To remove part of the beak of a chicken or other bird to prevent pecking in chicken farms.
- ‘Why not let them out to roam and scratch and peck at insects and worms and see if they come home in the evening and peck each other? Why debeak hens for something you are doing wrong?’
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for debeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA