Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BECK, v.2. Also bekk. To call, as a bird, especially the grouse. Gen. found in the phrase “to beck and birr”Kcb. 1897 T. Murray Poems (1898) 179:
Moor-hens and cocks seem wooin' ither . . . And bick, beck, birr.Ags. 1958 C. Gibson Highl. Deer Stalker 136:
Take "bekking" or calling grouse, for example.
