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▪ I. † ˈbecket, n.1 Obs. rare.
(See quot.)[1352–98in Rogers Agric. & Prices (1866) I. xxii. 580 We find purchases of silk on behalf of the warden of Merton. These purchases are called ‘beckets’ or ‘begens.’ Three begens or beckets were equal in quantity and price to the amount ordinarily used for lining the summer robes of a great person.] ▪ II. becket, n.2 Naut.|ˈbɛkɪt|
[Etymology unknown. Du. bogt, bocht ‘bend’ of rope, has been suggested. Falconer Dict. Marine, thought it ‘probably a corruption of bracket.’]
A simple contrivance, usually a loop of rope with a knot on one end and eye at the other, but also a large hook, or a wooden bracket, used for confining loose ropes, tackle, ropes, oars, spars, etc. in a convenient place, and also for holding or securing the tacks and sheets of sails, and for similar purposes.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Beckets are either large hooks, or short pieces of rope, with a knot on one end and an eye in the other, or formed like a circular wreath; or they are wooden brackets. 1830Marryat King's Own xxx, A pistol stuck..in a becket at the side of the boat. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 45 Bunt beckets are sewn on the after part of the sail.
▪ III. becket, v.|ˈbɛkɪt|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To fasten or secure by beckets; to furnish with beckets.
1823F. Cooper Pioneer xv. (1869) 66/2, I larnt..how a top-gallant-sail was to be becketted. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiii. (1856) 295 Preserved meat boxes..ready strapped and becketed (nautice for trunk-handled). |