Meaning of Beck | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A stream or small river.
   Norfolk, Northern-England
2. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
3. A vat.
4. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
5. An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
   countable, uncountable
6. 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

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Examples

“[…]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?”

“Then forthwith to him takes a choſen band / Of Spirits likeſt to himſelf in guile / To be at hand, and at his beck appear,”

“The dog obeyed the significant beck of his finger, and they drew off, stealthily, together.”

“Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent”

“As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,,^([sic]) his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."”

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