The act of making a beck; the act of bowing or nodding.(noun)
The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)
Use "becking" in a sentence
"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."