In throwing them they make use of a becket, that is, a piece of stiff plaited cord about six inches long, with an eye in one end and a knot at the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14] Reference

'Twas triced up in a-- a kind of becket, as you might say, made out of velvet -- yes, sir, by creepin ', velvet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

October 14, 2008 at 4:57 am lolrus said bukket not becket!.    From Wordnik.com.  [i can waits - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

A becket should be attached to the end to haul them off by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference

Hornblower took the glass from its becket and walked forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower And The Hotspur]

Hornblower took the speaking trumpet from its becket by the wheel and hailed back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

I have becket my vonderbilt hutch in sunsmidnought and at morningrise was encampassed of mushroofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Matilda in later life actually ended up being one of those people who once was important so in the time of becket and Eleanor she had become a nagging and cantankerous woman till her death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becket] Reference

November 24th, 2008 at 7:41 am goodman armstrong creek school district spalding county ga school system nyc school calander thomas a becket school bandys high school football kuldetitir Says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Articles] Reference

A becket, or piece of cord made of cocoa-nut bark, used in throwing their lances.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume 1] Reference

Date: 2010-09-23, 7:36PM PDT williams burner, becket control, with flange and filter.    From Wordnik.com.  [craigslist | for sale / wanted in seattle-tacoma] Reference

"All Gloucester men, wasn't they?" said Tom Platt, fiddling helplessly with a dory-becket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains Courageous] Reference

My mainsheet has two triple blocks, the one on the boom has a becket and the lower one a cam cleat.    From Wordnik.com.  [YBW News] Reference

Fasten a becket or loop of rope at a suitable position on the mast, to set the heel of the sprit into.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3] Reference

He, like Gerrard, carried a revolver at his saddle-bow, and a Snider carbine in a becket -- Native Police fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Gerrard] Reference

So I dropped the coiling lines and, with the oar already to the becket in the stern, whirled the dory's bow head on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trawler] Reference

Wherefore three bags were made, one for each boat, and attached by a becket to a length of line measuring about twenty fathoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference

In striving to jerk the becket clear, it parted, and the forward ends of the four sweeps rolled down the schooner's side into the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast] Reference

The bow-string consists of from twelve to eighteen small lines of three-sinew sinnet, having a loose twist, and with a separate becket of the same size for going over the knobs at the end of the bow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage] Reference

The use of this becket (introduced very many years ago by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

Soap in the becket over top of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference

53 minutes ago, -1 / +2I opened up an 08 becket at the library the other day, sad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference

June 5, 2009 at 7: 05 pm or prescot and becket.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

8/10/2009 4:11 PM becket said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catching up on the latest Tablet nonsense] Reference

8/24/2009 10:24 PM becket said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reform of the reform gathering pace] Reference

9/13/2009 12:25 PM becket said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Non-Canonical - and an alternative strategy] Reference

becket said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bishop Arborelius on the SSPX and the newest Swedish TV attack on the Pope] Reference