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单词 to make a balk
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to make a balk
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.)
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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.
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to make a balk
a. figurative. A slip, mistake, a blunder. to make a balk: to blunder, go wrong. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
haltc900
marOE
slidea1000
misfangOE
missOE
to have wough?c1225
misnimc1225
misrekec1275
mis-startc1275
err1303
to go wrongc1340
misgo1340
slipc1340
snapperc1380
forvay1390
to miss of ——c1395
to make a balkc1430
to run in ——1496
trip1509
fault1530
mistake1548
misreckon1584
misstep1605
warpa1616
solecize1627
hallucinate1652
nod1677
to go will1724
to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849
slip1890
skid1920
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun]
misnimming?c1225
errora1340
defaulta1387
balkc1430
fault1523
jeofail1546
errat1548
trip1548
naught1557
missa1568
missinga1568
slide1570
snappera1572
amiss1576
mistaking1579
misprize1590
mistake1600
berry-block1603
solecism1603
fallibility1608
stumblea1612
blota1657
slur1662
incorrectnessa1771
bumble1823
skew1869
(to make) a false step1875
slip-up1909
ricket1958
bad1981
c1430 Hymns to Virg. (1867) 92 Þouȝ a ȝong man make a balke, Ȝit take to þi mynde reuertere.
1661 W. Annand Panem Qvotidianvm 18 They..make such bawlks in their prayer.
1717 T. Tudway in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 311 Bentley's baulks and blunders about the king's reception.
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