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beck¹
- /ˈbɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
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.
noun becks
- 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[…]
beck²
- /ˈbɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
From Middle English bekken, a shortened form of Middle English bekenen, from Old English bēcnan, bēacnian (“to signify; beckon”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (“beacon”). More at beacon.
noun becks
- 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?
verb becks · becking · becked
- To nod or motion with the head. When gold and silver becks me to come on.
beck³
- /ˈbɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
See back.
noun becks
- A vat.
beck⁴
- /ˈbɛk/
Rhymes with -ɛk
Where it comes from
From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”).
noun becks
- Obsolete form of beak.beak Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent
Beck⁵
Where it comes from
* As a German surname, from Beck (“stream, brook”), see also Old Norse bekkr. Also a spelling variant of Becker (“baker”).
* As a Hebrew surname, shortened from בני (B'nei) קדושים (Kdoshim, “sons of the martyrs”).
proper noun Becks
- 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."
- An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
- The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.
