ˈhawkbill
1. A species of turtle; = hawk's-bill 1.
| 1782 P. H. Bruce Mem. xii. 424–5 Many sorts of tortoises, of which the hawk-bill is the most valuable for its fine shell. 1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 27, I found a hawk-bill turtle lying on the surface. |
2. An instrument. (See quots.)
| 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Hawk-bill, a pliers with curved nose, to hold pieces in blow-pipe soldering. Ibid., Hawk-bill-tooth-saw, a saw having a curving, hooked saw-tooth, somewhat resembling the upper mandible of the hawk. |
So hawk-billed a., having a mouth like a hawk's beak, as the hawk-billed turtle (= hawk's-bill).