bêche

[ besh, beysh ]

noun

1. a grab for retrieving tools used in drilling a well.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bêche¹

1850–55; < French: spade

Example Sentences

In 1830, Henry De la Beche, an English paleontologist, composed a painting of “Duria Antiquior,” a vision of Mesozoic oceans.

From New York Times

Almost two centuries have passed without direct evidence of the neck biting De la Beche imagined.

From New York Times

Jackson and a colleague threatened to resign if his department did not rename its annual undergraduate award, which was given in honour of Henry De la Beche, a nineteenth-century geologist whose family’s sugar plantation in Jamaica benefited from the labour of more than 200 enslaved people.

From Nature

The trio beat their sister car of Mike Conway, José María López and Kamui Kobayashi into second, with the Rebellion racing privateer squad of Gustavo Menezes, Mathias Beche and Thomas Laurent in third.

From The Guardian

"De la Beche is a dirty dog," Murchison wrote to a friend in a typical outburst.

From Literature