"becket" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbɛkɪt/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-becket.wav Forms: beckets [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛkɪt Etymology: Compare Dutch bek (“beak”) beak, and English beak. Etymology templates: {{cog|nl|bek||beak}} Dutch bek (“beak”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} becket (plural beckets)
  1. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle Categories (topical): Nautical Translations (nautical: short piece of rope spliced to form a circle): silmukka (Finnish), lenkki (Finnish), Schlaufe [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-auVVlx26 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'nautical: short piece of rope spliced to form a circle': 60 9 1 11 9 3 2 5 0
  2. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place. Categories (topical): Nautical Translations (nautical: loop of rope with a knot at one end): silmukka (Finnish), Softschäkel [masculine] (German), Tauwerk-Schäkel [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-aD8EzWI5 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'nautical: loop of rope with a knot at one end': 11 67 8 3 6 3 1 0 0
  3. (sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it. Categories (topical): Sewing
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-vYUOGQrO Topics: business, manufacturing, sewing, textiles
  4. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block. Categories (topical): Nautical Translations (nautical: clevis of a pulley block): silmukka (Finnish), Bügel [masculine] (German), Gabelkopf [masculine] (German), U-Klammer [feminine] (German)
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-rt~BNwAF Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 3 5 34 21 1 7 20 0 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 4 4 34 14 2 6 28 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 8 3 5 34 21 1 7 19 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 2 2 36 22 1 7 21 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 7 10 7 29 14 2 8 22 1 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 7 6 7 32 16 3 7 20 2 Topics: nautical, transport Disambiguation of 'nautical: clevis of a pulley block': 5 3 2 63 10 2 4 11 1
  5. An eye in the end of a rope. Translations (eye in the end of a rope): silmukka (Finnish), lenkki (Finnish), silmä (Finnish), Schlaufe [feminine] (German), Spleiß [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-Giwric6s Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 4 4 34 14 2 6 28 1 Disambiguation of 'eye in the end of a rope': 3 3 1 7 79 1 1 5 0
  6. (nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Nautical
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-8C-3nmdM Topics: nautical, transport
  7. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops. Translations (method of joining fabric): silmukka (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-TdxiXvGC Disambiguation of 'method of joining fabric': 1 3 8 4 0 3 78 2 1
  8. (England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens. Tags: England, dialectal, historical
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-GFcz1x7C Categories (other): English English, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 6 4 4 34 14 2 6 28 1
  9. (obsolete) chough (the bird) Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-becket-en-noun-~kSRAm~d
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: becket bend, becket hitch, chest becket, double becket hitch, steering wheel becket

Inflected forms

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          "text": "At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.",
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          "text": "The tool with which the cesses are dug is called a becket […] It is a wooden spade of a rectangular shape, quite flat, and shod with iron. An iron notch projecting at right angles to the plane of the blade cuts into the peat, and forms the side of the cess. The workman stands above and drives the becket almost vertically into the soft peat.",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "An eye in the end of a rope."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Nautical"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Henry Augustus Wise, Tales for the Marines, page 121:",
          "text": "At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A pocket in clothing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "pocket",
          "pocket"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Sydney B. J. Skertchly, Geology of the Fenland, page 136:",
          "text": "The tool with which the cesses are dug is called a becket […] It is a wooden spade of a rectangular shape, quite flat, and shod with iron. An iron notch projecting at right angles to the plane of the blade cuts into the peat, and forms the side of the cess. The workman stands above and drives the becket almost vertically into the soft peat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Frank Meeres (2019) The Story of the Fens",
          "text": "In the earlier time sods or hassocks were dug with a moorland spade, heart-shaped, but about 1856 a tool eighteen inches long and four inches wide, with an iron flange, called a becket was used […] The becket was first used in Isleham Fen and was of smaller dimensions than that used in Burwell Fen, being fourteen inches long and two and a half inches wide.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019, Frank Meeres, The Story of the Fens:",
          "text": "He marked four widths of the becket to the left, then thrusting and penetrating for fully 18 inches into the soggy peat, withdrawing and twisting the becket, completing the final thrusting on the back run.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A spade for digging turf in the Fens."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spade",
          "spade"
        ],
        [
          "dig",
          "dig"
        ],
        [
          "turf",
          "turf"
        ],
        [
          "Fens",
          "Fens"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "England",
        "dialectal",
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Cornish choughs, or “beckets”, as they are sometimes known, are seen on Thomas Wolsey’s coat of arms; they are a reference to his namesake, Thomas Becket.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "chough (the bird)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chough",
          "chough"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) chough (the bird)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɛkɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛkɪt"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "Beckett"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nautical: short piece of rope spliced to form a circle",
      "word": "silmukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nautical: short piece of rope spliced to form a circle",
      "word": "lenkki"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: short piece of rope spliced to form a circle",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlaufe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nautical: loop of rope with a knot at one end",
      "word": "silmukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: loop of rope with a knot at one end",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Softschäkel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: loop of rope with a knot at one end",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Tauwerk-Schäkel"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "nautical: clevis of a pulley block",
      "word": "silmukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: clevis of a pulley block",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Bügel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: clevis of a pulley block",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Gabelkopf"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "nautical: clevis of a pulley block",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "U-Klammer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "eye in the end of a rope",
      "word": "silmukka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "eye in the end of a rope",
      "word": "lenkki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "eye in the end of a rope",
      "word": "silmä"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "eye in the end of a rope",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schlaufe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "eye in the end of a rope",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spleiß"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "method of joining fabric",
      "word": "silmukka"
    }
  ],
  "word": "becket"
}

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