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Definitions for: Beck [n] a beckoning gesture
Webster (1913) Definition: Beck, n.
See Beak. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Beck, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook,
OHG. pah, G. bach.]
A small brook.
The brooks, the becks, the rills. --Drayton.
Beck, n.
A vat. See Back.
Beck, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Becked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Becking.] [Contr. of beckon.]
To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic]
--Drayton.
Beck, v. t.
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand;
to intimate a command to. [Archaic]
When gold and silver becks me to come on. --Shak.
Beck, n.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a
call or command.
They have troops of soldiers at their beck. --Shak.
See Also: gesture, motion
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