Beck

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 45

bek, n. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand. — v. i. To make a nod or sign.—?;.*. To notify or call by, etc.; to intimate a command to. —Beckon, bek'n, v. i. [beckoned (bek'nd), -oning.] To make a sign by nodding, etc. —v. t. To make a significant sign to; to summon.