River vs. Beck: What's the Difference?

Abbr. R. A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.

A gesture of beckoning or summons.

A stream or abundant flow

A small brook; a creek.

The fifth and last of the community cards in various poker games, especially Texas hold'em.

A stream or small river.

To win a hand in poker by beating (someone) on the basis of the last community card that is turned up.

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, especially as a call or command.

A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.

A vat.

Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.

Obsolete form of beak

(poker) The last card dealt in a hand.

(archaic) To nod or motion with the head.

(typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.

See Beak.

One who rives or splits.

A small brook.

(poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

A vat. See Back.

One who rives or splits.

A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand.

Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.

To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to.

To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.

A beckoning gesture

A large natural stream of water (larger than a creek);