What does "beck" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. Drayton.
2. 3.A vat. See Back.
3. 4.To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.
4. 5.To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. Shak.
5. 6.A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. Shak.