beck
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Is beck a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Norfolk, Northern England) A stream or small river.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, […]"Synonyms: brook, burn, creek, streamNorfolkNorthern-England
verb (English)
1. (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.Examples: "When gold and silver becks me to come on."; "I'll buy so many acres of old Scotland and call them by the Lockerby's name; and I'll have nobles and great men come bowing and becking to David Lockerby as they do to Alexander Gordon."; "The becking waiter, that with wreathed smiles, wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their "supper of the gods," has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpence and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing."archaic
Definition source: Wiktionary