BECK, or BECK, a word which imports a small stream of water issuing from some barn or spring. Hence Hell becks, little brooks in the rough and wild mountains about Richmond near Lancashire, so called on account of their shallowness and depth.
BECK is chiefly used among us in the composition of names of places originally situated on rivulets: hence Walbeck, Bournbeck, &c. The Germans use beck in the same manner.