Small streams or brooks, especially used in British English to describe shallow flowing water.
From Old English 'becc' and Old Norse 'bekkr,' meaning a small stream, with Scandinavian roots showing how the word traveled through both Germanic and Norse languages into modern English.
The word 'beck' is still alive in English place names like 'Beckenham' and many Yorkshire villages, because these small streams shaped where people settled and built their communities centuries ago.
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