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Becked vs Becket - What's the difference?

becked | becket |

As a verb becked

is (beck).

As a noun becket is

(nautical) a short piece of rope spliced to form a circle.

becked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (beck)

    • beck

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Cognate with low German bek or beck

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Norfolk, Northern English dialect) A stream or small river.
  • * Drayton
    • The brooks, the becks , the rills.
    Synonyms
    * brook * burn * creek * stream

    Etymology 2

    A shortened form of (beckon), from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
    • To be at the beck and call of someone.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To nod or motion with the head.
  • * Shakespeare
    • When gold and silver becks me to come on.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Winter Evening Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="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. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1881, author=Various, title=The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}

    Etymology 3

    See back.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vat.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Spenser)

    becket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle
  • (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other endUS FM 55-501 MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999 . Used to secure oars etc. at their place.
  • (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.
  • An eye in the end of a rope.
  • A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets ) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
  • (UK, dialect) A spade for digging turf.
    • (Wright)
    File:Tent_Becket.JPG, Diagram showing beckets used to join tent panels together.

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