beck
/ˈbɛk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.71 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
noun
A vat.
name
An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
Countable; Uncountable
name
The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…]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"
- "The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils."
- "Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?"