beck
English
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛk
Etymology 1
From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”). Cognate with Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Old English bæc, bec, bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook”). More at beach.
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
- Drayton
- The brooks, the becks, the rills.
- Drayton
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon.
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
- John Milton, Paradise Regained
- Then forthwith to him takes a chosen band, / Of spirits likest to himself in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear.
- John Milton, Paradise Regained
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
beck (third-person singular simple present becks, present participle becking, simple past and past participle becked)
- (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
- Shakespeare
- When gold and silver becks me to come on.
- 1896, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, Winter Evening Tales[1]:
- "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.
- 1881, Various, The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III[2]:
- 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.
- Shakespeare
Etymology 3
See back.
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- A vat.
Etymology 4
Noun
beck (plural becks)
- Obsolete form of beak.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛk(i)
Noun
beck m (plural s)
- Alternative spelling of beque
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
beck n
- pitch; A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
Declension
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | beck | becket | — | — |
Genitive | becks | beckets | — | — |
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