becking

noun

1. a gesture used to signal, summon, or direct someone.
2. Chiefly Scot. a bow or curtsy of greeting.

verb (used with or without object)

3. Archaic. beckon.

Idioms

4. at someone’s beck and call, ready to do someone’s bidding; subject to someone’s slightest wish: He has three servants at his beck and call.

verb (used with object) Metalworking.

1. to form (a billet or the like) into a tire or hoop by rolling or hammering on a mandrel or anvil.

noun

1. a nod, wave, or other gesture or signal
2. at someone’s beck and call ready to obey someone’s orders instantly; subject to someone’s slightest whim

noun

1. (in N England) a stream, esp a swiftly flowing one

v.

c.1300, shortening of beckon. (v.).

n.

late 14c., “mute signal,” from noun use of bekken (v.), variant of becnan “to beckon” (see beckon). Transferred sense of “slightest indication of will” is from late 15c.

see at someone’s beck and call.