1. a gesture or signal summoning someone
Usage: formal
2. a small stream or brook
Usage: British; regional

Examples

• She came running at his beck and call.
• The servants waited for their master’s beck.
• At the beck of the conductor, the orchestra began to play.
• A small beck flowed through the Yorkshire valley.
• They followed the beck upstream to its source.
• The cottage sat beside a babbling beck.