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Meanings of beck in English
Usage of beck in English
1
Plus he has entertainers at his beck and call: parties, dances, pageants.
2
They heard the waters of the beck rushing over its stony channel.
3
In these mountains a hundred men will follow his beck and call.
4
I reely fetched the hat beck for the sake o' the plume.
5
Kit recrossed the beck and descended cautiously, keeping close to the rocks.
6
The author lived at M. Zuckerberg's beck & call for some time.
7
The ATP, clearly at the beck and call of television, had refused.
8
He couldn't tolerate the feeling of being at someone's beck and call.
9
Jim Rutlidge and his unholy crew are at her beck and call.
10
Thinks every last one of us is at his beck and call!
11
He had many influential newspapers, corporations, banks, at his beck and call.
12
The black beck beneath the packhorse bridge sang its question to him.
13
Even I, the Black Sybil, must be at your beck and call.
14
I am no tool at the beck and call of a witch!
15
The red heath on the fell-top and the beck bubbling in the ghyll.
16
But the rain is not at the beck and call of the unhappy.
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Beck through the time
Beck across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common