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Becket

noun

(Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170). Synonyms: Saint Thomas a Becket, St. Thomas a Becket, Thomas a Becket.

(nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship.

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... olden days caused the highest and lowest in the land to perform penance in public. A notable instance of a king subjecting himself to this humiliating form of punishment is that of Henry II. The story of the King's quarrels with Becket, and of his unfortunate expression which led four knights to enact a tragic deed in Canterbury Cathedral, is familiar to the reader of history. After the foul murder of Becket had been committed, the King was in great distress, and resolved to do penance at the grave of the ...

— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews

... after the Anglo-Saxon cheap, to buy, from which Cheapside, in London, Chippenham and Chipping Norton derive their names. Some crosses are "pilgrim" crosses, and were erected along the roads leading to shrines where pilgrimages were wont to be made, such as the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket at Canterbury, Glastonbury, Our Lady of Walsingham. Sometimes they were erected at the places where the corpse rested on its way to burial, as the Eleanor crosses at Waltham and Charing, in order that people might pray ...

— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield

... a coach runs to Chablis (p. 14), with its famous wines, passing through Pontigny (p.16), where Thomas Becket resided. ...

— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black

... external nature, at least in its aspects of wonder, appears. The Celtic saints are not hermits of the desert, but travellers or pilgrims. Among the lives of contemporary saints, by far the most remarkable is that of our English Becket by Garnier de Pont-Sainte-Maxence. Garnier had himself known the archbishop; he obtained the testimony of witnesses in England; he visited the places associated with the events of Becket's life; his ...

— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden

... the officer, as Jack slipped a becket over one of the spokes in the wheel and came forward to meet him. "What schooner is this and ...

— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon

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