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beck
/ˈbɛk/
noun 4name 3verb 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
famous, over, pretty, significant, small
VERB + BECK
jump, obeyed
BECK + NOUN
finger, it's, sarvis, severn, way
PREP.
along
Definitions
noun
1
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[…]
[…] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.
noun
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?
Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,
verb
1
To nod or motion with the head.
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
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.
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[…]Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets[…]
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[…] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.
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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, […
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Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
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Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,
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The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.
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