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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beek¹

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

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg