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becke

becke is the obsolete spelling of beck.

Meaning of beck

Noun (1)

beck (plural becks)

  1. (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[…]1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 1, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great...
    Synonyms:
    brook, burn, creek, stream

Noun (2)

beck (plural becks)

  1. 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?c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

Noun (3)

beck (plural becks)

  1. A vat.

See all 7 meanings of beck

Forms of becke

pluralbeckes

Questions about becke

What is becke the obsolete spelling of?
Becke is the obsolete spelling of beck.

Words near becke in the dictionary

  1. Beck's cognitive triad
  2. Beck's scale
  3. Beck's triad
  4. Beck-Ibrahim disease
  5. Becka
  6. becke
  7. becked
  8. Beckel
  9. Beckels
  10. Beckenham
  11. becker

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