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beck

1  [bek]
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–noun
1. a gesture used to signal, summon, or direct someone.
2. Chiefly Scot. a bow or curtsy of greeting.
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
3. Archaic. beckon.
—Idiom
4. at someone's beck and call, ready to do someone's bidding; subject to someone's slightest wish: He has three servants at his beck and call.
Origin:
1325–75; ME becken, short var. of becnen to beckon
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