A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.
Ah, knovv you not the Citie fauours them, / And they haue troupes of Souldiers at their beck?
A vat.
Obsolete form of beak.
Headed like owles, with beckes 4 uncomely bent
To nod or motion with the head.
When gold and silver becks me to come on.
A surname.
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."
An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old English bæc, bec, bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”). Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, b...
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The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.