What is "beckets"

Usage examples of "beckets".

But even so, I believe I shall set up a couple of beckets, with an in-and-out turn over the hounds .

He was extremely reluctant to cut the line, both on principle and because silk was a treacherous stuff to splice, and in time he had woven the whole into a spider's web, an extraordinarily intricate piece of rigging with cunning knots, stoppers and beckets, the whole designed to concentrate two men's strength on the raising of the left-hand side of the farther slab: although he was never still, to a watcher his work seemed endless, needlessly finical, obscure.

But even so, I believe I shall set up a couple of beckets, with an in-and-out turn over the hounds.

He went back to the wheel and took the speaking trumpet from its beckets — the freshening wind made that necessary.

He went back to the wheel and took the speaking trumpet from its beckets - the freshening wind made that necessary.

Tewdric was an enthusiastic Christian and his followers thronged the hall that was lit by flaming torches set into iron beckets on the walls.

It was evening and the palace slaves were putting torches into beckets about the courtyard where, heedless of the damage they were causing to Guinevere's roses and water channels, a crowd had gathered to see Lancelot and Arthur.

His men were arming the ship carefully, stowing her dragon-plates of steel in the hold where they could be unshipped quickly, fitting beckets to the gunwales to hold crossbows and quarrels, chipping rocks for the mules.