beck
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Definition of beck
8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(Norfolk, Northern-England)A stream or small river.
“[…]Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets[…]”
“[…] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.”
“This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] and from the tree to Tudelesbeck, along the beck to the Severn, up along the Severn to Leofric's boundary, […]”
“Beck water cold and clear, will never clean your wound”
“The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.”
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noun
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(Norfolk, Northern-England)A stream or small river.
“[…]Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets[…]”
“[…] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.”
“This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] and from the tree to Tudelesbeck, along the beck to the Severn, up along the Severn to Leofric's boundary, […]”
“Beck water cold and clear, will never clean your wound”
“The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.”
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A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
“Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?”
“Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,”
“The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.”
- A vat.
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(alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of beak.
“Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent”
verb
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(archaic)To nod or motion with the head.
“When gold and silver becks me to come on.”
“I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon.”
“The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing.”
name
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(countable, uncountable)A surname.
“As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."”
- (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
- (countable, uncountable)The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old English bæc, bec, bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”). Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Doublet of batch. More at beach.
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