Usage examples (14)

• For me it all boils down to "beak or beakless" (as in the Perdue chicken factory).
• The shadow of the patrolman appeared there like a gaunt secretary-bird, black and beakless.
• Some corporate poultry farms crowd a million beakless chickens in cramped dark cages, soaking up antibiotics and laying their guts out for the duration of their...
• Before we could interfere he drove our pet out of his cage, and terrible was the battle that went on; the beakless bird was driven far away, and I was quite unhappy...