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beek

[ beek ]

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to bask or warm in the sunshine or before a fireplace, stove, or bonfire.
  2. (of wood) to season by exposure to heat.


noun

  1. Obsolete. the act of basking or warming by a fire.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of beek1

1200–50; Middle English beken, akin to bake (perhaps < Germanic *bōkjan )

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Example Sentences

Nearly a decade after Dawson's Creek, James Van Der Beek is back in the ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B— in Apt.

I pointed out to Van Beek that I should like to possess this small but well-selected library.

Overberg consented to wait; but Van Beek, the executor of the will, a man as inflexible as the law itself, had lost all patience.

It was Van Beek who had pushed matters to extremities, and he (Overberg) had been quite willing to grant any reasonable delay.

On the left the ground slopes abruptly to Bellewaarde Beek, on the other side of which was the 60th Battalion.

Some two hundred yards behind lies a support line, a good trench leading down to the Beek.

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