Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A device, such as a looped rope, hook and eye, strap, or grommet, used to hold or fasten loose ropes, spars, or oars in position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
becker . - noun Nautical: A short piece of rope, with a knot at one end and an eye in the other, for temporarily confining ropes or small spars.
- noun A handle made of a rope grommet or ring.
- noun A wooden cleat or hook, fastened on the fore- or main-rigging of a ship, for the tacks and sheets to lie in when not in use.
- noun A rope grommet in the bottom of a block for securing the standing end of the fall.
- noun A cant term for a trousers-pocket.
- noun A large hook used in loading logs on cars by means of tackle.
- noun In marine hardware, a brass or iron ring forming a part of a metal block, the block and becket being cast in one piece.
- To fasten or provide with beckets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope or metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
- noun Prov. Eng. A spade for digging turf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A short piece of
rope spliced to form acircle - noun nautical The
clevis of a pulley block. - noun An eye in the end of a rope.
- noun A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.
- noun UK, dialect A
spade fordigging turf .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship
- noun (Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In throwing them they make use of a becket, that is, a piece of stiff plaited cord about six inches long, with an eye in one end and a knot at the other.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 Robert Kerr 1784
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'Twas triced up in a-- a kind of becket, as you might say, made out of velvet -- yes, sir, by creepin ', velvet!
Fair Harbor Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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(“Voyages of Captain Cook round the World,” vol. i., chapter vi.) says that in the throwing of darts “they make use of the becket, that is, a piece of stiff plaited cord, about six inches long, with an eye in one end and a knot in the other.
Tropic Days 2003
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Describing some of the arts of the inhabitants of Tanna, Cook ( "Voyages of Captain Cook round the World," vol. i., chapter vi.) says that in the throwing of darts "they make use of the becket, that is, a piece of stiff plaited cord, about six inches long, with an eye in one end and a knot in the other.
Tropic Days 1887
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October 14, 2008 at 4:57 am lolrus said bukket not becket!
i can waits - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Matilda in later life actually ended up being one of those people who once was important so in the time of becket and Eleanor she had become a nagging and cantankerous woman till her death.
Becket Carolingian 2007
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I have becket my vonderbilt hutch in sunsmidnought and at morningrise was encampassed of mushroofs.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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November 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am goodman armstrong creek school district spalding county ga school system nyc school calander thomas a becket school bandys high school football kuldetitir Says:
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They hold the dart between the thumb and the remaining finger, which serve only to give direction, the velocity being communicated by the becket and forefinger.
Tropic Days 2003
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Hornblower took the glass from its becket and walked forward.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
ruzuzu commented on the word becket
"6. A cant term for a trousers-pocket." --Cent. Dict.
September 14, 2011
sionnach commented on the word becket
There's a hole in my becket.
Feck it!
September 14, 2011
qms commented on the word becket
A sailboat's a thicket of slang:
A salt links the gaff to the vang
Or he may connect it
By means of a becket
That hooks up a shroud to a tang.
December 22, 2016