Also beatment. Obs. or dial. [perh. f. F. becquer to peck + -MENT. Cf. Prof. Skeat’s remarks on PECK (the measure).] ‘A measure of about a quarter of a peck.’ Halliwell.
1673. Depos. Yrk. Castle (1861), 194. She gott a beakment of wheat flower.
1863. in Robson, Bards of Tyne, 252. The Farrier’s cap Blew off … Into a huckster’s shop it went—Now Martin’s cap’s a tatie beatment.
