Anagrams of: BECKETBEND

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

• (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)

• having a neck or having a neck especially as specified

• a beckoning gesture

• any of various platforms built into a vessel

• street name for a packet of illegal drugs

• a pack of 52 playing cards

• a porch that resembles the deck on a ship

• be beautiful to look at

• decorate

• knock down with force

• a funeral lament sung with loud wailing

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• intense or sharp

• excellent

• painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

• having a sharp cutting edge or point

• express grief verbally

• the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

• a narrow elongated projecting strip of land

• a cut of meat from the neck of an animal

• a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form

• an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer; a part of the garment near the wearer's neck

• kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• the outward flow of the tide

• flow back or recede

• hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

• fall away or decline

• hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella

• joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee

• the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee