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Definition of Becket
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170).
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church
Generic synonyms: Archbishop, Martyr, Saint
2. Noun. (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship.
Definition of Becket
1. n. A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope or metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
Definition of Becket
1. Noun. (nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle ¹
2. Noun. (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end'''US FM 55-501 ''MARINE CREWMAN’S HANDBOOK; 1 December 1999'''''. Used to secure oars etc. at their place. ¹
3. Noun. (nautical) The clevis of a pulley block. ¹
4. Noun. An eye in the end of a rope. ¹
5. Noun. A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (''beckets'') through eyelet holes and adjacent loops. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Becket
1. a securing rope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Becket
Literary usage of Becket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"becket. I am grieved to know as much. HENRY. But we must have a mightier man than he
... becket. It is your move. The Church in the pell-mell of Stephen's ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"His father, Gilbert becket, was a citizen in moderate circumstances.f His name
denotes ... becket was afterwards taunted with the lowness of his birth. ..."
3. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1856)
"LIFE OF LORD CHANCELLOR THOMAS A becket. KING STEPHEN having died in the year
1154, he was succeeded by the son of Matilda, the first of the Plantagenet ..."
4. The Popular History of England by Charles Knight (1880)
"Henry and becket meet at Touraine.—becket returns to England. ... The Shrine of
becket. \ IN the June of 1162, becket was elected archbishop of Canterbury ..."
5. The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution by David Hume (1858)
"During the heat of his quarrel with becket, while he was every day expecting an
... Though this design was conducted with expedition and secrecy, becket, ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"Upon this occasion becket wrote him a very kind letter. Canon Robertson (Life of
becket) thinks that he was insincere in doing this ; but though the ..."
7. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"becket, it is said, would have declined this accession of honours, ... Henry however
insisted, and becket was forthwith installed in his new dignity. ..."
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