becks

[bek] Origin

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.

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Becks is always a great word to know.
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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
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; Middle English becken, short variant of becnen to beckon
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beck

2[bek]
noun North England.
a brook, especially a swiftly running stream with steep banks.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English becc < Scandinavian; compare Old Norse bekkr; akin to Old English bece, Dutch beek, German Bach brook, MIr bual flowing water < Indo-European *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 (noun), shortening of beck-iron, variant of bick-iron
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beck
late 14c., "mute signal," from bekken (v.), var. of becnan "to beckon" (see beckon). Transferred sense of "slightest indication of will" is from late 15c.
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