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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)
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.

Origin:
1325–75; ME becken, short var. of becnen to beckon
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2[bek]
–noun North England.
a brook, esp. a swiftly running stream with steep banks.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME becc < Scand; cf. ON bekkr; akin to OE bece, D beek, G Bach brook, MIr bual flowing water < IE *bhog-lā

beck

3[bek]
–verb (used with object) Metalworking.
to form (a billet or the like) into a tire or hoop by rolling or hammering on a mandrel or anvil.

Origin:
v. use of beck (n.), shortening of beck-iron, var. of bick-iron

Beck

[bek]
–noun
Dave, 1894–1993, U.S. labor leader: president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 1952–57.
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beck 1   (běk)   
n.  A gesture of beckoning or summons.

[Middle English bek, from bekken, to beckon, alteration of bekenen; see beckon.]
beck 2   (běk)   
n.   Chiefly British
A small brook; a creek.

[Middle English, from Old Norse bekkr; see bhegw- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

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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Idioms & Phrases

beck

see at someone's beck and call.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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