[f. prec. sb.] trans. To fasten or secure by beckets; to furnish with beckets.
1823. J. F. Cooper, Pioneer, xv. (1869), 66/2. I larnt … how a top-gallant-sail was to be becketted.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxiii. (1856), 295. Preserved meat boxes … ready strapped and becketed (nautice for trunk-handled).
