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beck

“beck” is a Swedish word. Its meaning in English:

noun

  1. pitch (a dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil and tar)

Etymology

From Old Norse bik, from Middle Low German pik, from Old Saxon pik, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. See also Dutch pek, German Pech.

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