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beck
1 [bek]
–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)
—Idiom| 3. | Archaic. beckon. |
| 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. |
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Beck
Beck\, n. See Beak. [Obs.] --Spenser.Beck
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
Beck\, n. A vat. See Back.Beck
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
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.
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Language Translation for : beck
Spanish:
a disposición de,
German:
auf den leisesten Wink gehorchen,
Japanese:
人の言うなりになって
beck
1382, "mute signal," from bekken (v.), var. of becnan "to beckon" (see beckon). Transferred sense of "slightest indication of will" is from 1470.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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beck
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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