Definitions for beek

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Spelling: [beek]

IPA: /bik/

Beek is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in beek (beek).

Definitions for beek

noun

1. Obsolete. the act of basking or warming by a fire.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fireplace, stove, or bonfire.
2. (of wood) to season by exposure to heat.

Origin of beek

1200-50; Middle English beken, akin to bake (perhaps Germanic *bōkjan)

Examples for beek

Some two hundred yards behind lies a support line, a good trench leading down to the beek.

He said it was beek, whose home was a great way off, and that he was so old that the sea and the land were not so old as he.

Went out and was taken by beek to see the observatory instruments and wind-registers and seismographs.

The e in closed syllables with a full sound (as English a; Sweet, ei) is spelled ee: veel, week (e from i), beek.