BECKS

Proper noun

Becks

A nickname for the footballer David Beckham.

A nickname for Rebecca.

Noun

becks

plural of beck

Source: Wiktionary


BECK

Beck, n.

Definition: See Beak. [Obs.] Spenser.

Beck, n. Etym: [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook, OHG. pah, G. bach.]

Definition: A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.

Beck, n.

Definition: A vat. See Back.

Beck, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Becked (; p. pr. & vb. n. Becking.] Etym: [Contr. of beckon.]

Definition: To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.

Beck, v. t.

Definition: To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.

Beck, n.

Definition: A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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27 April 2024

GREAT

(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”


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