BECK

n. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

See Beak. [Obs.] Spenser.

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

A vat. See Back.

4.
v.

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

5.
v.

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.

6.
n.

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.

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