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Balk

noun

The area on a billiard table behind the balkline. Synonym: baulk.

Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress. Synonyms: baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment.

One of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof. Synonyms: baulk, rafter.

An illegal pitching motion while runners are on base.

verb

(past & past part. balked; pres. part. balking)

Refuse to comply. Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist.

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"Balk" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hannah, I mean—says she don't mind what happens to sea, but she won't have her nights in harbour disturbed. Old Billy Daddo hadn't laid hands on the first balk before he began to pipe, 'O for a thousand tongues to sing,' starting on the very first hymn in the collection like as if he meant to sing right through it. He hadn't got to 'music in the sinner's ears' before the old woman pushed her face overside by the ...

— Shining Ferry • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... it a day's work, and knock off," chimed in Waldo. "If the blamed thing should take a notion to balk, and rear back on its haunches, where'd we ...

— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

... the job and the Company won't permit us to have. They think they couldn't afford it—that it wouldn't be Good Business. 'Get up!' 'Whoa!' 'Back!' 'Move, damn you! and here's your corn and hay.' That's all we have to do with it. If you balk and kick, out you go to rustle your own feed. It's a beautiful system— for the Company. I almost wish that Worth had a chance to try out his scheme. It would at least be an interesting experiment ...

— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright

... has angled day and night, The silliest gudgeons will refuse to bite: So Swallow tried no more: but if they came To seek his friendship, that remain'd the same: Thus he retired in peace, and some would say He'd balk'd his partner, and had learn'd to pray. To this some zealots lent an ear, and sought How Swallow felt, then said "a change is wrought." 'Twas true there wanted all the signs of grace, But there were strong professions in ...

— The Borough • George Crabbe

... soon a nation without curiosity. You may now judge how little your situation is likely to be affected. I finish; I think I feel ashamed of tapping the events of a new reign, of which probably I shall not see half. If I was not unwilling to balk your curiosity, I should break my pen, as the great officers do their white wands, over the grave of the old ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

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