Meaning

(Norfolk, Northern England) A stream or small river..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Norfolk, Northern England) A stream or small river.
2. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
3. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
4. A vat.
5. Obsolete form of beak.

Example Sentences

[…]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.

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.

Word Forms

• becks
• becking
• becked

Synonyms for beck

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When Should You Use Beck?

Use beck when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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