Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to crack a joint; by implication, to wring the neck of a fowl (without separating it)
KJV Usage: wring off
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָלַק (ma.laq) — to nip. (Qal) to nip, nip off (head of a bird)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מָלַק vb. nip, nip off (head of bird; without necessarily severing it fr. body) base