| 单词 | balks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbalks a. A ridge or piece left unploughed by accident or carelessness; a piece missed in ploughing. (Often in phrase to make a balk or balks.) ΚΠ c1420 Pallad. on Husb. ii. 15 The balke, that thai calle, unered lande And overheled, beholde that there be noon. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) vii. viii b 172 Making no balkes, ye plough was truely hold. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. vv If he go to the ploughe & loke backewarde he seyth nat whyder the plough..make a balke. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iv. vi. 147 The husbandman may dart forth an Ejaculation and not make a balke the more. 1739 Burkitt's Expos. Notes N.T. (ed. 11) Luke ix. 62 He that ploughs must keep on, and make no Balks. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 277/2 The leaving of balks is a great fault, and is owing to..the ploughman not holding his plough upright. < as lemmas |
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