[f. BEAK v.1 + -ING2.] Forming, projecting like, or furnished with, a beak. Beaking joint: that formed by the meeting of several heading-joints in one continuous line; the opposite of breaking joint.
1667. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 150. The ends may all lye in a straight Line, that the straight ends of other Boards laid against them may make the truer Joint, and this they call a Beaking Joint.
1687. Holme, Armory, II. iii. 48. The Daubil … of some called a Beaking Glomaine … is a long Apple, having a Beak or Hook, by which it hangs to the stalk.
