Beck

Part of speech: noun (n.)

See Beak. [Obs.] Spenser.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A vat. See Back.

Part of speech: noun (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.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

Part of speech: verb (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.