English Dictionary

becket

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbɛkɪt/

名詞

俗語 イングランド 方言 歴史的 廃用

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle / (nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.

日本語の意味

航海用語として、船用のオールなどを固定するために用いられる、短いロープを編んで作った輪状の部分。 / 片端に結び目を有し、もう片方にループ（アイ）を形成して、オールなどを所定の位置に固定するために使用されるロープの一部。

He secured the fender to the cleat with a becket so it wouldn't bang against the hull.

彼はフェンダーが船体にぶつからないよう、輪にして継いだ短いロープでそれをクリートに固定した。

意味（1）

(nautical) A short piece of rope spliced to form a circle

意味（2）

(nautical) A loop of rope with a knot at one end to catch in an eye at the other end. Used to secure oars etc. at their place.

意味（3）

(sewing) A loop of thread, typically braided, attached at each end to a jacket. Used to pass through the brooch bar of medals to affix them to the jacket without damaging it.

意味（4）

(nautical) The clevis of a pulley block.

意味（5）

An eye in the end of a rope.

意味（6）

(nautical, slang) A pocket in clothing.

At the same time, mind, I must have a bit of a frolic occasionally, for that's all the pleasure I has, when I gets a little chink in my becket; and ye know, too, that I don t care much for that stuff, for a dollar goes with me as fur as a gold ounce does with you, when ye put on your grand airs, and shower it about like a nabob.

意味（7）

A method of joining fabric, for example the doors of a tent, by interlacing loops of cord (beckets) through eyelet holes and adjacent loops.

意味（8）

(England, dialect, historical) A spade for digging turf in the Fens.

The tool with which the cesses are dug is called a becket […] It is a wooden spade of a rectangular shape, quite flat, and shod with iron. An iron notch projecting at right angles to the plane of the blade cuts into the peat, and forms the side of the cess. The workman stands above and drives the becket almost vertically into the soft peat.

意味（9）

(obsolete) chough (the bird)

Cornish choughs, or beckets as they are sometimes known, are seen on Thomas Wolsey's coat of arms, they are a reference to his namesake, Thomas Becket.

beckets （ plural ）