Definitions for Becket

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Becket beck·et

Spelling: [bek-it]

IPA: /ˈbɛk ɪt/

Becket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Becket (bceekt).

Definitions for Becket

noun

1. a short length of rope for securing spars, coils of rope, etc., having an eye at one end and a thick knot or a toggle at the other, which is passed through the eye.
2. a grommet of rope, as one used as a handle or oarlock.
3. a grommet or eye on a block to which the standing end of a fall can be secured.
4. a wooden cleat or hook secured to the shrouds of a sailing vessel to hold tacks and sheets not in use.
5. Saint Thomas à, 1118?–70, archbishop of Canterbury: murdered because of his opposition to Henry II's policies toward the church.

Origin of Becket

First recorded in 1760-70; origin uncertain

Examples for Becket

"You will find me here," answered becket, standing by the door.

becket could hardly have been prepared for the manner of his reception.

Cromwell was mad and a quack; Anselm, becket, Goethe, ditto ditto.

The publishers name is not given, but it is the issue of becket and de Hondt.

becket general counsel Kyle Duncan revealed this week that the company would defy the mandate while its appeal is in the works.

They found that the becket household already knew of the arrest.

becket was a tall, powerful man, expert in the use of weapons.

The quarrel between Henry the Second and becket was entirely on this point.

And thus becket was saved from being obliged to make answer.

No one has met with more abuse than becket, ever since the Reformation.