A plural or variant form relating to beech trees or beech-related items, used primarily in historical or regional contexts.
From Italian or dialectal sources related to 'becco' (beak) or botanical terms; the exact origin is obscure in English usage, appearing in specialized or archaic texts.
This word is so rare that it barely appears in modern English dictionaries—it's a linguistic fossil that shows how closely English traders and scholars were connected to Italian and Romance languages during the medieval period.
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