Definition of "becking" []

• The act of making a beck; the act of bowing or nodding. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And yet she was subjected relentlessly to a phenomenon that has come to be called becking: To be "becked" is to be held up as such an evil and destructive person that someone, somewhere, will interpret it as a call to eliminate that problem through violence."
• "As, in going downstairs, he passed the shop where Dame Christie stood becking, he made civil inquiries after her husband."
• "I've never seen prostitution so blatant as in China, and this although it's a hanging offence; all through our meal, shabby tarts with white-painted faces had been becking and giggling in the door-way, calling out and displaying the mutilated feet by which the Chinese set such store, and the lads had been eating faster and faster in anticipation."