| 释义 |
balked, ppl. a.|bɔːkt|
[f. balk v.1 + -ed.]
†1. Ridged, ribbed. Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cxc. (1633) 607 Streaked or balked as it were with sundry stiffe streakes or ribbes running along every leafe.
†2. ? Heaped up; piled in a heap. Obs.
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. i. 69 Two and twenty Knights Balk'd in their owne blood did Sir Walter see.
3. Checked, foiled; disappointed.
1704Steele Tend. Husb. i. v, I came up to be married, I don't care to go down and look baulk'd. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxv. (1866) 294 Pang of balked affection.
4. U.S. In baseball: (see balk n.1 5 b). |