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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024balk /bɔk/USA pronunciation v. - to stop abruptly and refuse to go on: [no obj]:The horse balked when the rider tried to force him over the wall.[ ~ + at + verb-ing]:He went along with the robbery but balked at committing murder.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024balk (bôk),USA pronunciation v.i. - to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually fol. by at):He balked at making the speech.
- (of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on.
- Sport[Baseball.]to commit a balk.
v.t. - to place an obstacle in the way of;
hinder;
thwart:a sudden reversal that balked her hopes. - [Archaic.]to let slip;
fail to use:to balk an opportunity.
n. - a check or hindrance;
defeat;
disappointment. - a strip of land left unplowed.
- Buildinga crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters;
tie beam. - Buildingany heavy timber used for building purposes.
- Sport[Baseball.]an illegal motion by a pitcher while one or more runners are on base, as a pitch in which there is either an insufficient or too long a pause after the windup or stretch, a pretended throw to first or third base or to the batter with one foot on the pitcher's rubber, etc., resulting in a penalty advancing the runner or runners one base.
- Games[Billiards.]any of the eight panels or compartments lying between the cushions of the table and the balklines.
- [Obs.]a miss, slip, or failure:to make a balk.
- Games, Idioms in balk, inside any of the spaces in back of the balklines on a billiard table.
Also, baulk. - bef. 900; Middle English; Old English balca covering, beam, ridge; cognate with Old Norse bǫlkr bar, partition, Dutch balk, Old Saxon balko, German Balken, Old Norse bjalki beam, Old English bolca plank; perh. akin to Latin sufflāmen, Slovene blazína, Lithuanian balžíenas beam. See balcony
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged check, retard, obstruct, impede, prevent.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: balk, baulk /bɔːk; bɔːlk/ vb - (intransitive) usually followed by at: to stop short, esp suddenly or unexpectedly; jib: the horse balked at the jump
- (intransitive) followed by at: to turn away abruptly; recoil: he balked at the idea of murder
- (transitive) to thwart, check, disappoint, or foil: he was balked in his plans
n - a roughly squared heavy timber beam
- a timber tie beam of a roof
- an unploughed ridge to prevent soil erosion or mark a division on common land
- an obstacle; hindrance; disappointment
- an illegal motion by a pitcher towards the plate or towards the base when there are runners on base, esp without delivering the ball
See also baulkEtymology: Old English balca; related to Old Norse bálkr partition, Old High German balco beam baulk /bɔk/USA pronunciation v., n. [Chiefly Brit.]- balk.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024baulk (bôk),USA pronunciation v.i., v.t., n. - balk.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: baulk /bɔːk; (usually for sense 1) bɔːlk/ n - Also (US): balk the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
- a strip of earth left between excavation trenches for the study of the complete stratigraphy of a site
vb , n - a variant spelling of balk
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