beck
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- //ˈbɛk//
A stream or small river.
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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.
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
Etimologia
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.
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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?
Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles,
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.
Etimologia
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.
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arcaicoTo 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.
The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing.
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A vat.
Etimologia
See back.
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Variante di beakobsoletoObsolete form of beak.
Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent
Etimologia
From Middle English bec, bek, from Old French bec (“beak”).
Forme
- plurale
- becks
- passato
- becked
- participio passato
- becked
- participio presente
- becking
- 3ª persona singolare
- becks
beck · A stream or small river.
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